0 past simple and past participle of chivvy --
1 to encourage someone to do something they do not want to do: --
But he did not tell us that they had all protested very vigorously at having been hurried and chivvied and forced to give those opinions before they were ready.
The need for spending the surplus money on off-street parking has been reiterated and "chivvied up" again and again over the years by many different people in many different circumstances.
The trouble about having scattered services is that people are chivvied from one place to another when they try to find out who is to deal with their problem.
The question is whether it is better that he should snare it or that the otter should be chivvied and frightened away.
I find that where there are gipsies the inhabitants often consider them nuisances, and that the gipsies are chivvied here and there.
The money may come from village communities, from their parents, perhaps from collections among their relations who have to be chivvied for each year's fees.
Such people need skilled help and counselling and need to be chivvied if they are to get back fully into employment.
They need to be chivvied to ensure that the reforms work, because they have an important role in that.
