Definition

1. Verb:
   • To annoy, harass, or pester someone persistently: To cause repeated irritation or trouble to someone, often in a nagging or bothersome manner.
   • To chase or pursue: To drive or urge someone or something along, often with a sense of hurry or pressure.

Examples of Usage

• Verb:
  • The older children would constantly chevy the new student about his accent.
  • The manager tends to chevy his team for updates, even on weekends.
  • The farmer had to chevy the sheep back into the pen.

Advanced Usage

• "to chevy someone into doing something": to persistently nag or pressure someone until they do something.
  • She chevied her brother into finishing his homework before he could go out.

Variants and Related Words

• Chivvy (verb): A common variant spelling of "chevy" with the same meaning of persistently annoying or urging.
  • He had to chivvy the committee to make a decision.
• Chevied (past tense/participle): The past form of the verb.
  • We were chevied by sales calls all afternoon.

Synonyms

• Harass: To torment or trouble someone repeatedly.
• Harry: To persistently harass or worry.
• Pester: To bother someone with frequent or persistent requests or interruptions.
• Badger: To pester someone persistently.

Related Phrasal Verbs

(This word is not commonly used in phrasal verb constructions. Its meaning is contained within the single verb form.)

Related Idioms

• "To give someone a chevy": (Less common) To give someone a hard time or to chase them.
  • The older boys gave the younger ones a chevy all the way home from school.

Verb

1. annoy continually or chronically
   • He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked
   • This man harasses his female co-workers