Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to chivy
Participle: chivied
Gerund: chivying
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | chivy |
| you | chivy |
| he;she;it | chivies |
| we | chivy |
| you | chivy |
| they | chivy |
Perfect
| I | have chivied |
| you | have chivied |
| he;she;it | has chivied |
| we | have chivied |
| you | have chivied |
| they | have chivied |
Past
| I | chivied |
| you | chivied |
| he;she;it | chivied |
| we | chivied |
| you | chivied |
| they | chivied |
Pluperfect
| I | had chivied |
| you | had chivied |
| he;she;it | had chivied |
| we | had chivied |
| you | had chivied |
| they | had chivied |
Future
| I | will chivy |
| you | will chivy |
| he;she;it | will chivy |
| we | will chivy |
| you | will chivy |
| they | will chivy |
Future Perfect
| I | will have chivied |
| you | will have chivied |
| he;she;it | will have chivied |
| we | will have chivied |
| you | will have chivied |
| they | will have chivied |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | chivy |
| you | chivy |
| he;she;it | chivy |
| we | chivy |
| you | chivy |
| they | chivy |
Perfect
| I | have chivied |
| you | have chivied |
| he;she;it | have chivied |
| we | have chivied |
| you | have chivied |
| they | have chivied |
Imperfect
| I | chivied |
| you | chivied |
| he;she;it | chivied |
| we | chivied |
| you | chivied |
| they | chivied |
Pluperfect
| I | had chivied |
| you | had chivied |
| he;she;it | had chivied |
| we | had chivied |
| you | had chivied |
| they | had chivied |
Conditional
Present
| I | would chivy |
| you | would chivy |
| he;she;it | would chivy |
| we | would chivy |
| you | would chivy |
| they | would chivy |
Perfect
| I | would have chivied |
| you | would have chivied |
| he;she;it | would have chivied |
| we | would have chivied |
| you | would have chivied |
| they | would have chivied |
Imperative
| you | chivy |
| we | Let's chivy |
| you | chivy |
Verbs conjugated like 'chivy'
accompany,
acetify,
acidify,
adsignify,
affy,
alacrify,
alkalify,
ally,
amnesty,
amplify,
angelify,
anglicify,
anglify,
apology,
apply,
arefy,
argufy,
astony,
atrophy,
avowtry, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'chivy'
chevy,
chiv,
chive,
chivvy,
bivy,
cheve,
chib,
chick,
chide,
chief,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
A variant of chevy.
Sample Sentences
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He wos allus willin fur to give me somethink he wos, though Mrs. Sangsby she was allus a chivying on me—like everybody everywheres. [1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, “Stop Him!”, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC, page 447:]
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Odd's wouns! it was a proper hunt. Away went my gentlemen, whooping like madmen, with their coat skirts flapping in the breeze, chivying on the dogs and having a rare morning's sport. [1889, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “Of the Swordsman with the Brown Jacket”, in Micah Clarke: […], London: Longmans, Green, and Co […], →OCLC, page 316:]
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St. John remains in the outer room, looks at the clock, […] chivies the tabby cat; counts the flitches of bacon hanging from the rafters; […] [1869 August, [Rhoda Broughton], “Red as a Rose is She”, in Temple Bar: A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers, volume XXVII, London: Richard Bentley, […]; New York, N.Y.: Willmer and Rogers, →OCLC, chapter XVI, page 29:]
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Some customers could now be relied upon to send in their orders regularly and, apart from having to chivy those who had fallen behind with their payments, this allowed travellers to concentrate their energies on securing new customers and on recovering those who had been lost to competitors. [1973, B. W. E. Alford, “A New Generation and a New Firm”, in W. D. & H. O. Wills and the Development of the UK Tobacco Industry, 1786–1965, London: Methuen & Co. Ltd. […], →ISBN; reprinted as Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Routledge, 2006, →ISBN, page 55:]
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He headed for home, walking a little faster now, as if chivied along by some old cold wind that didn't quite reach the sunlit world. [1981 November, Gardner Dozois, Jack C[arroll] Haldeman II, “Executive Clemency”, in Omni, New York, N.Y.: Omni Publications International; republished as Gardner Dozois, Geodesic Dreams: The Best Short Fiction of Gardner Dozois, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, October 1992, →ISBN, page 35:]