| Definitions | noun (chivvies)
- A goad.
- (referring to passenger feedback website) It's just there to act as a chivvy to London Underground. (ibid.)
verb (chivvies, chivvying, chivvied)
Chiefly British.
- To subject to harassment or verbal abuse.
- For 11 years now he has only one approach - to lead from the front and then to confront, challenge, and chivvy the Labour Party into backing him. (www.bbc.co.uk)
- To coerce, as by persistent request.
- We don't have time to respond to emails or any attempts to chivvy us up - sorry. (ibid.)
- To sneak up on or rapidly approach.
- I chivvy up behind him, flashing my lights. (ibid.)
- To pursue as in a hunt.
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