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)