Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. the face, thus attrib.

c.1886		music hall song 🎵 ’Aint he got an artful chevy [F&H].
1889		Dead Bird (Sydney) 21 Dec. 8/4: Hasn’t got a bloomin’ bit / Of hair upon his chivvy.
1890		‘Welsher’s Confession’ in Seal (1999) 143: I had two ribs broken, and my ‘chivvy’ was altered awful.
1894		Truth (Sydney) 19 Aug. 6/7: He fought twenty rounds with the greatest man of his weight alive, and had not a single mark on his chivvy.
1898		L. Barclay [perf. Vesta Victoria] He calls me his own Grace Darling 🎵 He’s not got a ‘chivvy’ that you'd like at first / It grows on you, you see.
1899		C. Rook Hooligan Nights 21: Young Alf never set eyes on his father’s chivvy.
1900		Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 17 Oct. 1/3: When Dawson tried to laugh over it [i.e. a gambling loss] it nearly cracked his chivvy.
1904		Sun. Times (Perth) 3 Apr. 1/1: While facial comedian Ted Ford was rehearsing [...] T.F.’s chivvy contortions resembled those of a delirum tremens inmate.
1908		Gem 17 Oct. 6: I don’t like the look of that chap’s chivvy.
1909		Sun. Times (Perth, WA) Supp. 19 Dec. 25/3: Nearly every morning he woke up with a swollen chivvy.
1911		Gem 30 Sept. 13: I had to bump over the paper one of them was holding, so as to be able to get a squint at his chivvy.
1924		E.G. Murphy ‘Pink’ in Dryblower’s Verses 81: ’Ard of chivvy, ’e was fair Soft inside.
1932		(con. WWI) L. Mann Flesh in Armour 105: [A] welcoming grin on his ugly chivvy.
1949		Monteleone Criminal Sl. (rev. edn) 50: chivy [...] a face.
1957		G. Kersh Fowlers End (2001) 269: Without ’eavens above or china plate / I know I can never be missed, / So I shake in the chivvy of ’orrible Fate / My trembling Oliver Twist.
1961		‘Frank Richards’ Billy Bunter at Butlins 167: I might knock that fat chivvy of yours right through the back of your head.

2. a general term of address, ‘old chap’.

1923

J. Manchon Le Slang.

3. a moustache.

1984

Partridge DSUE (8th edn) 211/2: since ca. 1940.