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chevy

Syllables: che·vy/ˈʃɛvi//ˈt͡ʃɛvi/

chevy noun: a hunt or pursuit; a chase. Also the alternative spelling of chivvy.

Noun (1)

chevy (countable and uncountable, plural chevies)

  1. (countable) A hunt or pursuit; a chase.
    • The sergeants-major were always on the watch to report us if we went out of bounds. […] The moment we saw the sergeant-major, off we scampered over hedge, ditch, bog, and ploughed land, leaving him to catch or identify us if he could! […] Of all the serjeants-major, Howe, of the C company, ran the...1846, “Portfire” [pseudonym], “Shots from an Old Six-pounder”, in Bentley’s Miscellany, volume XX, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 243
  2. (countable) A cry used in hunting.
  3. (uncountable) The game of prisoners' bars.

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To chase or hunt.
    • […] John, before taking his departure, had left the stable door and the front gate open, and that Tartar [a horse], having no halter on, had quietly walked out into the high road, and had been chevied up and down by the boys for the last quarter of an hour.1868 January, “Miss Sophy’s Crutch”, in London Society. An Illustrated Magazine of Light and Amusing Literature for the Hours of Relaxation, volume XIII, number LXXIII, London: Office, 217...
    • Hostler Jack chevies the Pardoner, who drops his pan, […]1887, F[rederick] J[ames] Furnivall, W. G. Stone, editors, The Tale of Beryn, with a Prologue of the Merry Adventure of the Pardoner with a Tapster at Canterbury. Re-edited from the Duke of...
    Synonyms:
    hound, pursue
  2. (transitive) To vex or harass with petty attacks.
    • St. John remains in the outer room, looks at the clock, […] chivies the tabby cat; counts the flitches of bacon hanging from the rafters; […]1869 August, [Rhoda Broughton], “Red as a Rose is She”, in Temple Bar: A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers, volume XXVII, London: Richard Bentley, […]; New York, N.Y.: Willmer and Rogers...
    • So when I was done, and the fishing was as good as the start, I cut a long "staddle," with a bush at the top, and I just went for that school of trout. I chevied, harried and scattered them, up stream and down, until I could not see a fish.1883, “Nessmuk” [pseudonym; George Washington Sears]; Charles F. Orvis and A. Nelson Cheney, compilers, “Trout: Meeting Them on the ‘June Rise’”, in Fishing with the Fly: Sketches by Lovers of the...
  3. (transitive) To maneuver or secure gradually.
  4. (intransitive) To scurry.
    Synonyms:
    scamper

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Chevy

Chevy

  1. (abbreviation, clipping) Clipping of Chevrolet, a brand of car produced by General Motors.
    • Chevy has introduced a new model for 1964: the Malibu. See your dealer today!
    • GM [General Motors] namecalled Chevy’s Ford-beating sales in its press release.2025 June 11, Ben Shimkus, “Ford slips down sales list as century-old nemesis makes fun of slump”, in Daily Mail, London: DMG Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Jun 2025

Noun (2) capitalized: Chevy

Chevy (plural Chevies)

  1. (informal) A vehicle of this make.
    • I saw a late-model Chevy pull around back. That would have been around 10 PM.
    • Drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry […]1971, Don McLean, "American Pie" (song)
    Synonyms:
    Chevrolet

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Chevy

Chevy

  1. A unisex given name

Also used as

chevy is also the alternative spelling of chivvy.

chevy meaning in Hindi, Bengali, Telugu and Kannada

chevy in Hindi

चेवी

chevy in Bengali

চেভি

chevy in Telugu

చెవీ, చీవీ

chevy in Kannada

ಚೆವಿ, ಚೀವಿ
More languagesFewer languages
chevy in Punjabi
ਚੀਵੀ, ਚੈਵੀ
chevy in Gujarati
ચીવી, ચેવી
chevy in Odia
ଚେଭି
chevy in Nepali
चेवी, चीवी

Examples of chevy in a sentence

  • [I]t seemed rather a piquant thing to us to chevy him about the playground and hit him over the shins with a wicket.1893 (indicated as 1894), A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Naval Treaty”, in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, London: George Newnes, […], →OCLC...
  • "They're chevying that poor animal [a dog] again," he said hotly.1898, W[illiam] W[ymark] Jacobs, “Pickled Herring”, in Sea Urchins, London: Lawrence and Bullen, Ltd. […], →OCLC, page 160:

Synonyms of chevy

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Forms of chevy

Noun
pluralchevies
alternative formchivy
alternative formchivey
pluralChevies
Verb
third-person singular presentchevies
present participlechevying
past participlechevied
pastchevied
Proper noun
alternative formChevie
alternative formChevvie
alternative formChevvy

Origin of chevy

The noun is probably derived from the title of The Ballad of Chevy Chase, first published in The Complaynt of Scotland (1549); the ballad is about a hunt taking place on a chase (“large country estate where game may be hunted”) in the Cheviot Hills between Northumberland and the Scottish Borders, and is thought to allude to the Battle of Otterburn in 1388. The verb is derived from the noun.

Diminutive of Chevrolet: Clipping of Chevrolet + -y.

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Words that rhyme with chevy

Questions about chevy

What does chevy mean?
Chevy means a hunt or pursuit; a chase.
What is chevy in Hindi?
Chevy in Hindi is चेवी. See Chevy meaning in Hindi.
How do you use chevy in a sentence?
[I]t seemed rather a piquant thing to us to chevy him about the playground and hit him over the shins with a wicket.
What part of speech is chevy?
Chevy can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce chevy?
Chevy is pronounced /ˈt͡ʃɛvi/ (UK).
What is the plural of chevy?
The plural of chevy is chevies.

Words near chevy in the dictionary

  1. chevrotins
  2. Chevs
  3. Chevvie
  4. Chevvies
  5. Chevvy
  6. chevy
  7. chevy chase
  8. chevy chases
  9. chevying
  10. chew
  11. Chew Magna

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: chevy (page history and authors); Chevy (page history and authors); chevy (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); chevy (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); chevy (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); chevy (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); chevy (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); chevy (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); chevy (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); chevy (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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