chivey
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]chivey (third-person singular simple present chiveys, present participle chiveying, simple past and past participle chiveyed)
- Archaic form of chivvy.
- 1846, Charles Selby, Maximums and Speciments of William Muggins, page 143:
- We played the same game at hewery place we passed through, till at last the poor devil got so hunmercifully guyed and chiveyed that he war obligated to cry for quarter […]
- 1893, Sir Francis Cowley Burnand, The Real Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, page 144:
- Cat and dog returned chiveying a big goat. Goat went for me and the blanket. Upset everything.