chevy

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈt͡ʃɛvi/    美 /ˈt͡ʃɛvi/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A hunt or pursuit; a chase. countable
    — The sergeants-major were always on the watch to report us if we went out of bounds. […] The moment we saw the sergeant-major, off we scampered over hedge, ditch, bog, and ploughed land, leaving him to catch or identify us if he could! […] Of all the serjeants-major, Howe, of the C company, ran the swiftest. Howe enjoyed these chivies. He frequently omitted to report us if we gave him a good breathing.
  2. A cry used in hunting. countable
  3. The game of prisoners' bars. uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To chase or hunt. transitive
    — […] John, before taking his departure, had left the stable door and the front gate open, and that Tartar [a horse], having no halter on, had quietly walked out into the high road, and had been chevied up and down by the boys for the last quarter of an hour.
  2. To vex or harass with petty attacks. transitive
    — St. John remains in the outer room, looks at the clock, […] chivies the tabby cat; counts the flitches of bacon hanging from the rafters; […]
  3. To maneuver or secure gradually. transitive
  4. Alternative spelling of chivvy. alt-of,alternative,transitive
    — He wos allus willin fur to give me somethink he wos, though Mrs. Sangsby she was allus a chivying on me—like everybody everywheres.
  5. To scurry. intransitive

词形变化

chevies plural chivy alternative chivey alternative chevies present,singular,third-person chevying participle,present chevied participle,past chevied past chivy alternative

词汇关系

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词源

词源 1
The noun is probably derived from the title of The Ballad of Chevy Chase, first published in The Complaynt of Scotland (1549); the ballad is about a hunt taking place on a chase (“large country estate where game may be hunted”) in the Cheviot Hills between Northumberland and the Scottish Borders, and is thought to allude to the Battle of Otterburn in 1388.
The verb is derived from the noun.
词源 2
The noun is probably derived from the title of The Ballad of Chevy Chase, first published in The Complaynt of Scotland (1549); the ballad is about a hunt taking place on a chase (“large country estate where game may be hunted”) in the Cheviot Hills between Northumberland and the Scottish Borders, and is thought to allude to the Battle of Otterburn in 1388.
The verb is derived from the noun.
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