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Definition of Chivied
1. chivy [v] - See also: chivy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chivied
Literary usage of Chivied
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Supplementary English Glossary by Thomas Lewis Owen Davies (1881)
"Mud. D'Arblay, Diary, vii. 109. CHIVY, to chase (slang). I've been a chivied and
a chivied, fust by one on you and nixt by another on you, ..."
2. Studies from Life by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (1861)
"he lads got into a habit of being " chivied and chivied," and kept " moving on,"
till he has learned to feel no particular tie or interest in any body or ..."
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