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Definition of Chivying
1. chivy [v] - See also: chivy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chivying
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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