Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. to chase around, to hunt about, to leave quickly; thus as imper. chivey!, hurry up!

1821		W.T. Moncrieff Tom and Jerry I vii: Come along, then. Now, Jerry, chivey!
1840		Mons. Merlin 18 Apr. 4/1: ‘Hoff your started to call a coach, then chiveyed hout with more fissik, no ope o’ sitting down to your vittles’.
1848		Dickens Dombey And Son (1970) 379: I was chivied through the streets, Sir, when I went there, and pounded when I got there.
1871		Daily News Report ‘A Republican Demonstration in Hyde Park, on Sunday, April 17’ n.p.: A comparatively decent man [...] was mobbed and chivied from side to side [F&H].
1892		Leeds Mercury 20 Sept. 6/2: [headline] ‘Chiveying the Coster’.
1895		Crowe Aus. Sl. Dict. 17: Chivey, to hunt about, to chase round.
1897		Hull Dly Mail 7 June 4/4: ‘Chivey Them’ [...] But before the cab could drive off, loud cries of ‘Chivey them’ were raised and [...] a mob of desperate men began to attack the cab.
1900		Boy’s Own Paper 10 Nov. 91: Perhaps you know what it’s like to be chivied round the dining table by an irate elder brother.
1949		W. Pegler 29 Sept. [synd. col.] So Mr. Dubinsky’s union not only chivvies the subjects to get the vote out but warns them to register [W&F].

2. (US Und.) to scold.

1859		Matsell Vocabulum.
1881		Trumble Sl. Dict. (1890).