2. Noun. (plural of chivvy) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Chivvies
1. chivvy [v] - See also: chivvy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chivvies
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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