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CHEVY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chevy mean? 

CHEVY (verb)
  The verb CHEVY has 1 sense:

1. annoy continually or chronicallyplay

  Familiarity information: CHEVY used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CHEVY (verb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Annoy continually or chronically

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

beset; chevvy; chevy; chivvy; chivy; harass; harry; hassle; molest; plague; provoke

Context example:

This man harasses his female co-workers

Hypernyms (to "chevy" is one way to...):

annoy; bother; chafe; devil; get at; get to; gravel; irritate; nark; nettle; rag; rile; vex (cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "chevy"):

goad; needle (annoy or provoke, as by constant criticism)

bedevil; crucify; dun; frustrate; rag; torment (treat cruelly)

haze (harass by imposing humiliating or painful tasks, as in military institutions)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody


 Context examples 


On the contrary, it seemed rather a piquant thing to us to chevy him about the playground and hit him over the shins with a wicket.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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