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  • chivvying — chiv·vy || tʃɪvɪ v. nag; pester somebody; annoy someone persistently …   English contemporary dictionary

  • chivy — or chivvy transitive verb (chivied or chivvied; chivying or chivvying) Etymology: chivy, noun, chase, hunt, probably from English dialect Chevy Chase chase, confusion, from the name of a ballad describing the battle of Otterburn (1388) Date: 1918 …   New Collegiate Dictionary

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  • chivy — or chivvy [chiv′ē] n. pl. chivies or chivvies Brit. a hunt; chase vt., vi. chivied or chivvied, chivying or chivvying 1. to fret; harass; …   Universalium

  • chivvy — /chiv ee/, v.t., v.i., chivvied, chivvying, n., pl. chivvies. chevy. Also, chivy. * * * …   Universalium

  • chivvy — chiv|vy chivy [ˈtʃıvi] v past tense and past participle chivvied present participle chivvying third person singular chivvies [T] BrE informal [Date: 1700 1800; Origin: Chevy Chase, place near the border between England and Scotland where a battle …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • chivvy — [[t]tʃɪ̱vi[/t]] chivvies, chivvying, chivvied VERB If you chivvy someone, you keep telling them to do something that they do not want to do. [BRIT] [V n into ing/n] There, the health care authority chivvies doctors into doing more preventive… …   English dictionary

  • chivvy — (also chivy) verb (chivvies, chivvying, chivvied) chiefly Brit. repeatedly tell (someone) to do something. Origin C18: orig. a noun denoting a hunting cry, prob. from the ballad Chevy Chase, celebrating a skirmish on the Scottish border …   English new terms dictionary

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