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chevvy

chevvy \chevvy\ v. to repeatedly cause annoyance or concern to; to chevy; -- same as chivy.

Syn: harass, hassle, harry, chivy, chivvy, chevy, beset, plague, molest, provoke.

chevvy

chivvy \chivvy\ v. same as chivy. [Also spelled chivy, chevy, and chevvy.]

Syn: harass, hassle, harry, beset, plague, molest, provoke.

chevvy

Chivy \Chiv"y\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Chivied; p. pr. & vb. n. Chivying.] [Cf. Chevy.] To goad, drive, hunt, throw, or pitch; to repeatedly cause annoyance or concern to. [Slang, Eng.] [Also spelled chivvy, chevy, and chevvy.]
--Dickens.

Syn: harass, hassle, harry, beset, plague, molest, provoke.

WordNet
chevvy

v. annoy continually or chronically; "He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked"; "This man harasses his female co-workers" [syn: harass, hassle, harry, chivy, chivvy, chevy, beset, plague, molest, provoke]

Wikipedia
Chevvy

Chevvy may refer to:

  • Chevvy Pennycook, an English rugby union player
  • Chevvy Cooper, technical support for Australia national wheelchair rugby team

Usage examples of "chevvy".

The Chevvy press breakfast was breaking up and Len Roller suggested that the three of us go downstairs to the dining room.

Five minutes later I looked up and found them still watching me, huddled about 20 feet away behind the sky-blue Z-28 Chevvy on its slow-moving turntable.

The Chevvy people had set up a plywood podium next to the Z-28 -- which they said was a new and special model, but which looked like any other Camaro with a (Head) ski rack on top.

Booming Chevvy sales are mainly responsible for GM's spurt to a plus-50 per cent of the whole auto market.

Killy first suggested that I meet him again at the Auto Show in Chicago, where he was scheduled for a second weekend of Chevvy gigs on the same 1-3-5-7-9 schedule.

I don't know how Sam will come back, unless the Chevvy is uptown somewhere.

See if any of them noticed the Chevvy parked anywhere near the apartment house.

There was a Chevvy wagon parked in the spot where the armoured car always stopped.

There was very little traffic, only one Chevvy station wagon between Parker and the armoured car.

So Parker drove the rented Chevvy into town where he got a hotel room and slept till ten o'clock.

Parker drove up past the neglected lawns to the front door and stopped the Chevvy where the sign marked "Visitors' Parking".

I edged my battered prewar Chevvy past a huge two‑hundred-dragonpower Lincoln with sky‑blue handle, polyethylene straw, and blatting radio.

I edged my battered prewar Chevvy past a huge two-hundred -- dragonpower Lincoln with sky-blue handle, polyethyl-ene straw, and blatting radio.

Pris offered to drive me to my motel in my Chevvy, taking it home herself and picking me up the next morning.