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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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name
Clipping of Chevrolet, a brand of car produced by General Motors.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
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name
A unisex given name
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A hunt or pursuit; a chase.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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noun
A cry used in hunting.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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noun
The game of prisoners' bars.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
A vehicle of this make.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
Synonyms: Chevrolet
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verb
To chase or hunt.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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Synonyms: hound, pursue
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verb
To vex or harass with petty attacks.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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Synonyms: beleaguer, beset, plague, badger, bait, bedevil, persecute, dog, besiege, bug, devil, chevy, give someone grief, harass, harry, hound, pester, pick at, vex
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verb
To maneuver or secure gradually.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
Alternative spelling of chivvy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative, transitive
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verb
To scurry.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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Synonyms: scamper
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verb
annoy continually or chronically
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: harass, hassle, harry, chivy, chivvy, chevvy, beset, plague, molest, provoke
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Broader terms: annoy, rag, get to, bother, get at, irritate, rile, nark, nettle, gravel, vex, chafe, devil
Narrower terms: needle, goad, torment, rag, bedevil, crucify, dun, frustrate, haze
History
Diminutive of Chevrolet: Clipping of Chevrolet + -y.
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.
Across languages
6 source translations are retained for this English entry.
