Synonyms for chivy
- go after
- seek
- accompany
- attend
- badger
- bait
- bug
- dog
- fish
- harass
- harry
- haunt
- hound
- hunt
- oppress
- persevere
- persist
- plague
- ride
- shadow
- stalk
- tag
- tail
- trace
- track
- trail
- bird-dog
- camp on the doorstep of
- give chase
- hunt down
- move behind
- nose around
- play catch up
- poke around
- prowl after
- run after
- run down
- scout out
- search for
- search high heaven
- search out
- take out after
- track down
Antonyms for chivy
- aid
- assist
- be lazy
- give up
- help
- ignore
- leave
- leave alone
- let go
- neglect
- quit
- run away
- stop
- support
- discontinue
- eschew
- retreat
- shun
EXAMPLES FROM THE WEB FOR CHIVY
They'd 'ave nobody to chivy 'em when they come to the throne, or returned from the wars.
I thought: "In a day or two I shall get to like her, and then I shan't be able to chivy her."
I let the first class off easily, but the second I chivy through a whole year.
They are not in a hurry, nor "chivy" over their work either; the tides rise and fall slowly, and they work in correspondence.
It was an eternal game of chivy or hide-and-seek, each person being by turn the hunter and the hunted.
Every year I have some seven such hopefuls whom, to express it in the students' slang, I "chivy" or "floor."
The objective of the R. Sussex on the left was the enemy's trenches along the Chivy road.
WORD ORIGIN
"harass," 1918, from alternative form of chevy (1830) "to chase," from a noun chevy (1824, also used as a hunting cry, c.1785), from chevy chase "a running pursuit," probably from the "Ballad of Chevy Chase," popular song from 15c. describing a hunting party on the borderland that turned into a battle between the English and the Scots (the incident probably late 14c.). The place is probably originally Cheviot Chase.