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Definition of chivvy in English English dictionary
- To subject to harassment or verbal abuse
- To sneak up on or rapidly approach
- To coerce, as by persistent request
- To pursue as in a hunt
to chivvy the fox.
- A goad
- annoy continually or chronically; "He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked"; "This man harasses his female co-workers"
- If you chivvy someone, you keep telling them to do something that they do not want to do. Jovial ladies chivvy you into ordering more than you can eat! He chivvies the troops along with a few well-directed words. to try to make someone do something more quickly, especially in an annoying way chivvy sb along/up (Chevy Chase, place near the border between England and Scotland where a battle was fought in 1388)
- {f} nag; pester somebody; annoy someone persistently
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- A hunt or chase
- chivy
- A hunting cry
- chivied
- {s} vexed or harassed with petty attacks
- chivy
- {f} scurry; maneuver or secure gradually
- chivy
- To maneuver or secure gradually
- chivy
- To scurry
- chivy
- {i} chase or hunt; hunting cry
- chivy
- To vex or harass with petty attacks
- chivy
- annoy continually or chronically; "He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked"; "This man harasses his female co-workers"
- chivy
- To goad, drive, hunt, throw, or pitch
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