Meanings of chivy in English

We're saved if we can chivy Laputa till morning.

Do you suppose I'm going to chivy Jimmy about without doing anything to help him?

Before he could reply, if he meant to, Mrs. James came out to chivy us inside.

I let the first class off easily, but the second I chivy through a whole year.

It was an eternal game of chivy or hide-and-seek, each person being by turn the hunter and the hunted.

Somebody has to chivy him.

They are not in a hurry, nor "chivy" over their work either; the tides rise and fall slowly, and they work in correspondence.

I did see some of the peasants chivying a fellow down below.

You don't stamp out a vice by chivying it round the corner.

On the left-hand dock Egwene found Anaiya, watching the loading and chivying those who were not moving fast enough.

Here groups of young men, with chivalrous idealism, were jeering at and chivying the broken remnants of a suffrage meeting.

"Come on, Nancy," I chivy, putting my arm round her shoulders.

As you've discovered, scolding, chivying, and harrying a fellow is one way to make sure he doesn't have time for mischief.

Don't you come fooling about, making me mad, chivying away all my better feelings with this silly tombstone nonsense of yours.

Then he made the rounds again, chivying the regulars to pay their tabs and pleading for someone to haul the corpses to the boneyard.

On the 18th, during the night, the Gloucestershire Regiment advanced from their position near Chivy, filled in the enemy's trenches, and captured two Maxim guns.