0 past simple and past participle of chivvy
1 to encourage someone to do something they do not want to do:
The more they are chivvied from pillar to post, the greater the sense of isolation, and the greater the nuisance they become.
During the past few years they have been chivvied, investigated, and afflicted.
I hope we shall refuse to go on being chivvied by blind mice.
I think that we all agree that such children ought to be chivvied into our schools.
They need to be chivvied to ensure that the reforms work, because they have an important role in that.
Such people need skilled help and counselling and need to be chivvied if they are to get back fully into employment.
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.
I find that where there are gipsies the inhabitants often consider them nuisances, and that the gipsies are chivvied here and there.
