Citations:Chevvie

Noun: "alternative spelling of Chevy"

 * 1942, Robert St. John, From the Land of the Silent People, page 83:
 * Then the Chevvie, which Hill was driving, had a flat tire on a road so deep with mud we couldn’t use the jack.
 * 1953, Peter Brackett, "The Pay-off", in Hit Parade of Short Stories (1959 printing), page 119:
 * Then I talked with Dad, suggesting that we trade in the Chevvie.
 * 1954, Rosemary Taylor, Ghost Town Bonanza, page 99:
 * To be really sure that Sally would have transportation in an emergency, Rollo drove the Chevvie across the new piece of road and parked it in a wide place further down.
 * 1959, Mordecai Richler, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1995 printing), page 289:
 * It had taken them nearly ninety minutes to free Virgil from the cab of the Chevvie.
 * 1962, Hortense Calisher, Tale of the Mirror, page 44:
 * We accepted without particular consideration, partly out of a reawakened interest in her and what she would be like at home with the Senator, and partly because it was a place to go with the Chevvie — and no sense of the stringency of time had led us as yet to a carping evaluation of the people with whom we spent it.
 * 1978, Anton Myrer, The Last Convertible, page 449:
 * I went to the foot of the stairs and called: "Nancy! I'm taking the Chevvie, I'm driving Russ over to Boston."
 * 1983, Charlotte MacLeod, Something the Cat Dragged In, page 61:
 * Shandy refrained from pointing out that it would be easy enough for the Chevvie to cut across the lawn,
 * 1990, David Goddis, The Burglar, page 29:
 * ‘Get new cards printed and take care of the Chevvie. Get it done fast. Get new upholstery, now, new paint job, melt the licence plates. Everything.’
 * 1996, Margaret Geddes, Remembering Weary: Sir Edward Dunlop – As Recalled by Those Whose Lives He Touched, page 76:
 * I got the groundsheet out, spread it on the deck and went off to sleep alongside the Chevvie.
 * 2000, Arthur Maimane, Hate No More, page 154:
 * Philip could’ve laughed at him, right in the face beside him in the crowded front seat of the Chevvie.
 * 2006, Zoë Wicomb, Playing in the Light, page 193:
 * In the very backseat of the Chevvie where Marion and Annie bounced about with the dog on Saturday-afternoon drives to Milnerton