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chivy

/ˈt͡ʃɪvi/

chivy is the alternative form of chevy.

Meaning of chevy

Noun

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.

See all 9 meanings of chevy

Forms of chivy

Noun
pluralchivies
Verb
third-person singular presentchivies
present participlechivying
past participlechivied
pastchivied

Origin of chivy

A variant of chevy.

Questions about chivy

What is chivy the alternative form of?
Chivy is the alternative form of chevy.
How do you pronounce chivy?
Chivy is pronounced /ˈt͡ʃɪvi/.

Words near chivy in the dictionary

  1. chivvies
  2. chivving
  3. chivvy
  4. chivvying
  5. chivvyings
  6. chivy
  7. chivying
  8. Chiweenie
  9. Chiweenies
  10. Chiwemba
  11. Chiwembas

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: chivy (page history and authors); chevy (page history and authors). 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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