Definition of Chevying

1. chevy [v] - See also: chevy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chevying

chevrets
chevrette
chevron
chevron incision
chevroned
chevronel
chevronels
chevroning
chevrons
chevronwise
chevrony
chevrotain
chevrotains
chevvy
chevy
chevying (current term)
chew
chew off
chew on
chew on the scenery
chew out
chew over
chew the cud
chew the fat
chew the scenery
chew toys
chew up
chew up the scenery
chewability

Literary usage of Chevying

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. God's Man: A Novel by George Bronson-Howard, Bobbs-Merrill Company, Braunworth & Co (1915)
"... and his chevying before; and, in a way, it would have ... for that chevying was the first episode in the life of Arnold L'Hommedieu that seriously ..."

2. Nature by Nature Publishing Group, Norman Lockyer (1883)
"This was made imre ciri.ius by some of the town dogs catching sight of the objects, and taking to chevying them along the santi, until a sort of ..."

3. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) (1900)
"... living on their gardens and chevying the men from place to place. In order that the police should have no shelter, ..."

4. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1887)
"As the baffled monster lay bleeding on the turf, he asked him, " why were you chevying my Cat ? " " It is rather original," said the Miller's son ; " I have ..."

5. The Gentleman's Magazine (1892)
"Once he got stuck hard and fast on a grass slope while chevying his • goats. His coat blew off, and someone who saw it thought it was a great bird. ..."

6. The Nineteenth Century (1889)
"It is not likely that they either expected or even hoped it, any more than the Frenchman was really anxious to kill the woodcock, the constant chevying of ..."

7. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1856)
"... but the mob had become somewhat indifferent to the eloquence of the stump orators, and indulged themselves by hunting or “chevying” any remarkable ..."

8. The Scottish Historical Review by Company of Scottish History (1906)
"There exists, in the possession of Mr. Fraser Tytler, a little enamelled jewel representing a boy chevying a mouse, and this is said to have been given to ..."

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