chevvy

Other forms of chevvy

past tense

chevvied·

present participle

chevvying·

third person

chevvies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about chevvy

What does chevvy mean?

chevvy means "annoy continually or chronically".

How many syllables are in chevvy?

chevvy has 2 syllables: chev-vy. The stress falls on "vy".

What is another word for chevvy?

Close synonyms include harass, hassle, harry, chivy, chivvy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is chevvy a common word?

chevvy is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.