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Chivied

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.

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vb. (en-pastchivy)

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chivy

  1. 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, chivvy, chevy, chevvy, beset, plague, molest, provoke]

  2. [also: chivvying, chivvies, chivvied, chivied,

  3. chevying, chevies, chevied]

Usage examples of "chivied".

The tail of it, where Garric gently chivied the complaining ewes, was still visible on the slope.

Kayla chivied the others into it while she filled Hosea in on the events of the day.

Finally he raised the liver-spotted hand to the faceplate of his helmet and gave it a kiss through the plastic, then allowed himself to be chivied to the sidelines.

Then he chivied one about the floor, lining it up with the open mouth of the fireplace, and whacked it with the end of the club as if he were playing golf.

I'm going where I won't be chivied about and pointed at, like what I am here.

I've been a chivied and a chivied, fust by one on you and nixt by another on you, till I'm worritted to skins and bones.