Crossword clues for chivvy
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"harass," 1918, from alternative form of chevy (1830) "to chase," from a noun chevy (1824, also used as a hunting cry, c.1785), from chevy chase "a running pursuit," probably from the "Ballad of Chevy Chase," popular song from 15c. describing a hunting party on the borderland that turned into a battle between the English and the Scots (the incident probably late 14c.). The place is probably originally Cheviot Chase.\n\nThe old song of Chevy-Chase is the favourite ballad of the common people of England, and Ben Jonson used to say, he had rather have been the author of it than of all his works.
[Addison, "spectator" No. 70, May 21, 1711]
Wiktionary
Etymology 2 n. A goad. vb. 1 To subject to harassment or verbal abuse. 2 To coerce, as by persistent request. 3 To sneak up on or rapidly approach. 4 To pursue as in a hunt.
WordNet
Usage examples of "chivvy".
Graypate stubbornly withheld but a single item until the day when Speedy and Redhead and Blacky chivvied it out of him.
But wait, he told himself, wait for more victims, and sure enough the sepoys pushed through the breaks in the hedge until all the picquets were in front of the cactus and their officers and sergeants began chivvying them forward onto the open pasture where there would be more space for the half companies to deploy into line.
Though he looked forward to her occasional flights for the momentary cooling her rapidly beating wings brought to his face, he was not about to chivvy her airborne just to provide him with a few seconds of heightened comfort.
That had been when he had started to chivvy Rupen into accompanying him to black-powder shooting exhibitions.
There were ten more to be chivvied before these inquisitors reached Mowry.
Somebody in the Sirian High Commanda psychologist or a cynicworked it out that the more one chivvied the civilian population the lower sank its morale.
Then, Milo and his bitch of a wife chivvied him into marrying that renegade slut, Aldora.
Before dawn he was dragged from his noisome prison and chivvied down to the harbor.
On my strict orders, stray swine are chivvied out of camp whenever they wander in.
Yet again adverse circumstances were chivvying him into a tight corner.
Lumbering along with them were the village's milk cows and their calves, the sheep and goats skittered along in their own flocks, chivvied by excited dogs that had never had this much fun.
But instead the driver chivvied his team around a difficult left turn and into a dark downhill passage, barely wider than the coach itself, that cut behind the Banqueting House and drained toward the river.
The trap was set and the elephants were coming straight into it, chivvied and sheep-dogged by the low-flying Cessna.
She infected him with her enthusiasm as she chivvied him into taking her on a guided tour of the various special quarters which accommodated the more esoteric sentient races of the FSP in their own atmosphere or gravity.
She chivvied her mind away from the food fantasies it wanted to indulge in, steering it into mathematics instead.