Definition of Chivying

1. Verb. (present participle of chivy) ¹

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Definition of Chivying

1. chivy [v] - See also: chivy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chivying

chived
chives
chivied
chivies
chiving
chivs
chivved
chivvied
chivvier
chivviers
chivvies
chivving
chivvy
chivvying
chivy
chivying (current term)
chiz
chizz
chizzed
chizzes
chizzing
chk
chk1 protein kinase
chkalovite
chkalovites
chkpt
chks
chladniite
chladniites
chlamydate

Literary usage of Chivying

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

1. Letters of John Richard Green by John Richard Green (1902)
"Otherwise you doom me to copy for myself. Now come over and talk sensibly, car a mia arnica, about this matter. With you behind me copying and chivying, ..."

2. Man in the Light of Evolution by John Mason Tyler (1908)
"She treated them much as Poor Joe in " Bleak House" complained that Detective Bucket treated him: " He always kept a-chivying of me, and a-telling me to ..."

3. Gaslight and Daylight: With Some London Scenes They Shine Upon by George Augustus Sala (1859)
"chivying' we called it. We had three or four Eton boys among us, who had carried out so well the maxim of Floreat Etona at that ..."

4. Tasmanians in the Transvaal War by John Bufton (1905)
"The Boers should remember the Australian Bushmen for a good time to come, tor we gave them a good "chivying!" About 4o prisoners taken, and a great many ..."

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