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Definition of Chivvied
1. chivvy [v] - See also: chivvy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chivvied
Literary usage of Chivvied
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1888)
"Instead of Bobby being chivvied, and finally chucked out, Bobby seems to have
chivvied the Public in casual way. Graphic descriptions of Rev. ..."
2. The Life of James McNeill Whistler by Elizabeth Robins Pennell, Joseph Pennell (1908)
"They chivvied a policeman, somebody threw a brick at him, he called, and, the
next thing, down the street charged a mounted squadron. ..."
3. The Cornhill Magazine by George Smith (1895)
"Exercise sharpens the appetite, and when this morning the butcher's boy chivvied
him over the parched-up grass field that lay between the station and the ..."
4. Lives of the Hunted: Containing a True Account of the Doings of Five by Ernest Thompson Seton (1901)
"Every passing wagon and horseman and grazing Calf had to be chivvied, and if the
Cat from the guard-house strayed by, Chink felt that it was a solemn duty ..."
5. Macmillan's Magazine by John Morley, Mowbray Morris, David Masson, George Grove (1907)
"... if Vater Radetsky has not chivvied the Piedmontese back to Turin and blown
Milan to bits by then." " You have heard that the troops have left Venice ? ..."
6. The Journal of a Disappointed Man by W. N. P. Barbellion, Herbert George Wells (1919)
"... those dozy, flapdoodle creatures of the afternoon were transformed into
quacking, quarrelsome, blustering birds that squabbled and chivvied each other, ..."
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