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▪ I. chevy, chivy, n.|ˈtʃɛvɪ, ˈtʃɪvɪ|
Also chivvy.
[This and the cognate verb are modern; and probably arise out of Chevy Chase: see below.]
1. As a hunting cry.
c1785O'Keefe Hunting Song, ‘Old Towler’, With a hey, ho, chivy Hark forward, hark forward, tantivy. 18..Shairp in Knight S. & Friends 12 Then, with the music of the baying pack, All the old chivalries came floating back, And mingled with the chevy and the chime. 1865Dickens Mut. Fr. iii. x, When you are ready, I am..with a Hey Ho Chivey, and likewise with a Hark Forward, Tantivy.
2. A chase, pursuit, hunt.
a1824C. Lofft Self-Formation (1837) I. 174 Running into a hare after a chevy of a full hour. 1842S. Lover Handy Andy v. 48 The man..made a chevy down the south side of Leicester Square, etc. 1860J. C. Atkinson Playhours 1 Come out man and warm your blood with a chivy. 1862H. Marryat Year in Sweden II. 257 A stag hunt in full chevy. 1872Daily News 3 Sept., With noisy chevies after the hares.
3. a. The game of prisoners' base.
1883F. Anstey Vice Versa v, This particular sport ‘chevy’, commonly known as ‘prisoners' base’, being of a somewhat monotonous nature, and calling for no special skill on the part of the performers.
b. The set of players who are chased in this game.
1859J. Payn Foster Brothers viii. 129 We were great at football; we were a most distinguished ‘chevy’.
4. Chevy Chase
a. the scene of a famous Border skirmish, celebrated in a well-known ballad; hence, transferred, as in quots.
(Quot. 1665 refers possibly to a song of the name.)
1665Locke Letter in Fox Bourne Life (1876) I. iii. 113 He that could not..make better music with a chevy-chase over a pot of smooth ale, deserved well to pay the reckoning and go away athirst. 1876Mid-Yorksh. Gloss. (E.D.S.) Chevy-chase, a running pursuit. 1880West Cornw. Gloss. (E.D.S.) Chevy-chace, a great bustle or noise. ‘What's all the Chevy-chace about?’
b. Rhyming slang = face n. 1 a. Also ellipt. as chevy. Cf. chivvy n. ? Obs.
1859Hotten Dict. Slang 142 Chevy Chase, the face. 1891[see chivvy n.]. 1909J. R. Ware Passing Eng. 72 After listening for a while her chevy-chase gets serious looks. 1944Amer. Speech XIX. 192/1 Chevy chase, the face... Now obs. in England.
▪ II. chevy, chivy, v.|ˈtʃɛvɪ, ˈtʃɪvɪ|
Also chevey, chivey.
[See the n.]
1. trans. To chase.
1830Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Chivy, to chace, to run and career gaily, like boys in their sports. 1840Gen. P. Thompson Exerc. (1842) V. 50 The other side are to blame, if they do not, as we should say in the dragoons ‘Chevy’ them back again. 1872F. W. Robinson Wrayford's Ward III. 209, I thought that it was a very odd name,..and that the boys would be very severe upon it presently in the play-ground, and ‘chivey’ him. 1873G. C. Davies Mount. & Mere xi. 85 We..had been chevied by a diminutive black bull of exceedingly fierce aspect. 1883Daily News 26 Feb. 2 Localities whence omnibuses and railways have chivied romance. 1914G. B. Shaw Pygmalion 1, Poor girl! Hard enough for her to live without being worrited and chivied. 1927British Weekly 27 Oct. 85/2 Into this melee Mr. Sheppard proposes joyously to launch another fifteen, and chivy the ball in yet a third direction.
2. intr. To race, scamper.
1830Forby [see 1]. 1863J. C. Jeaffreson Live it Down II. 243 (Hoppe), I just caught sight of young Squire Turrett chiveying along as if the old 'un was behind him. 1865Daily Tel. 4 Mar., They [the hares] had..‘chevied’ over the moonlit open so securely, that they had almost forgotten to sleep with one eye open.
Hence chevied, chivied ppl. a., -ing vbl. n.
1880Blackmore Erema (Hoppe) The very least child of all, too young as yet for chivying. 1886N. Tirard in 19th Cent., The poor chivied outcast. |