Chevy

Quick meaning: Chevy is a noun meaning (countable) A hunt or pursuit; a chase.

Meaning

(countable) A hunt or pursuit; a chase.

More Meanings

1. (countable) A cry used in hunting.
2. (uncountable) The game of prisoners' bars.
3. (transitive) To chase or hunt.
4. (transitive) To vex or harass with petty attacks.
5. (transitive) To maneuver or secure gradually.
6. (transitive) Alternative spelling of chivvy.
7. (intransitive) To scurry.

Example Sentences

Hostler Jack chevies the Pardoner, who drops his pan, […]

[I]t seemed rather a piquant thing to us to chevy him about the playground and hit him over the shins with a wicket.

He wos allus willin fur to give me somethink he wos, though Mrs. Sangsby she was allus a chivying on me—like everybody everywheres.

St. John remains in the outer room, looks at the clock, […] chivies the tabby cat; counts the flitches of bacon hanging from the rafters; […]

Word Forms

• chevies
• chevying
• chevied

Synonyms for chevy

Depending on context, synonyms include hound, pursue, beleaguer, beset, plague, badger.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include chivvy, harry, beset, provoke, harass, hassle.

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