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chivvy definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: annoy continually or chronically; "He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked"; "This man harasses his female co-workers" [syn: harass, hassle, harry, chivy, chivvy, chevy, chevvy, beset, plague, molest, provoke]

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb see chivy

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. (-ies, -ied) (also chivy, chevy) harass, nag; pursue. Etymology: chevy (n. & v.), prob. f. the ballad of Chevy Chase, a place on the Scottish border

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Chevy Chev"y, n. [Written also chivy, and chivvy.] [Prob. fr. the ballad of Chevy Chase; cf. Prov. E. chevychase a noise, confusion, pursuit.] [Eng.] 1. A cry used in hunting. 2. A hunt; chase; pursuit. 3. The game of prisoners' base. See Base, n., 24.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(chivvies, chivvying, chivvied) If you chivvy someone, you keep telling them to do something that they do not want to do. (BRIT) Jovial ladies chivvy you into ordering more than you can eat!... He chivvies the troops along with a few well-directed words. VERB: V n into -ing/n, V n with adv, also V n to-inf, V n, V n prep