chivey
English
Verb
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.
- 1846, Charles Selby, Maximums and Speciments of William Muggins (page 143)
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