Definition of Chivvies

1. Verb. (third-person singular of chivvy) ¹

2. Noun. (plural of chivvy) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Chivvies

1. chivvy [v] - See also: chivvy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chivvies

chivari
chivaried
chivaries
chivariing
chive
chived
chives
chivied
chivies
chiving
chivs
chivved
chivvied
chivvier
chivviers
chivvies (current term)
chivving
chivvy
chivvying
chivy
chivying
chiz
chizz
chizzed
chizzes
chizzing
chk
chk1 protein kinase
chkalovite
chkalovites

Literary usage of Chivvies

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

1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1883)
"Wot '» it matter Лого They receives their gruel ? Tell yer this soft rot Wich hue Sportsman chivvies, Sends the race to pot, Makes us all old ..."

2. Belgravia by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1873)
"There are Chummies who are like the Romanists, they wear green; and there are chivvies as take after the Protestants, and they wear red, and can't abide ..."

3. Studies in English, Written and Spoken: For the Use of Continental Students by Cornelis Stoffel (1894)
"2175, 132*: "Tell yer this soft rot—wich hus sportsmen chivvies,—Sends the race to pot,— Makes us all old ..."

4. Fores's Sporting Notes & Sketches. a Quarterly Magazine Descriptive of (1892)
"Years before this they had taken council together and tried to pitch on a spot for a covert, whence they might hope for a few chivvies every season over ..."

5. The Dialect and Folk-lore of Northamptonshire by Thomas Sternberg (1851)
"Sometimes a fox or hare : old huntsmen still tell of the witch of Wilby, and the famous " chivvies ..."

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