CHEVY

harass, hassle, harry, chivy, chivvy, chevy, chevvy, beset, plague, molest, provoke

(verb) annoy continually or chronically; “He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked”; “This man harasses his female co-workers”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Proper noun

Chevy (plural er-noun)

Short for Chevrolet.; a brand of car produced by General Motors.

Noun

Chevy (plural Chevies)

(informal) A Chevrolet car.

Etymology

Noun

chevy (countable and uncountable, plural chevies)

(countable) A hunt or pursuit; a chase.

(countable) A cry used in hunting.

(uncountable) The game of prisoners' bars.

Verb

chevy (third-person singular simple present chevies, present participle chevying, simple past and past participle chevied)

(transitive) To chase or hunt.

(transitive) To vex or harass with petty attacks.

(transitive) To maneuver or secure gradually.

(transitive) Alternative spelling of chivvy

(intransitive) To scurry.

Synonym: scamper

Source: Wiktionary


Chev"y, v. t.

Definition: See Chivy, v. t. [Slang, Eng.] One poor fellow was chevied about among the casks in the storm for ten minutes. London Times.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

17 June 2025

RECREANT

(adjective) having deserted a cause or principle; “some provinces had proved recreant”; “renegade supporters of the usurper”


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Coffee Trivia

According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.

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