Verb: chivy chi-vee
Usage: Brit
Usage: Brit
- Annoy or hinder continually or in many ways
"The older siblings chivied their younger brother all day";
- harass, hassle [informal], harry, chivvy [Brit], chevy [Brit, archaic], chevvy [non-standard], beset, plague, molest, provoke
Derived forms: chivied, chivies, chivying
Type of: annoy, bother, chafe [archaic], devil, get at [informal], get to, gravel [US], irritate, nark [Brit, slang], nettle, rag, rile, roil [N. Amer], tick off [informal], vex