Definition of Chivvying

1. Verb. (present participle of chivvy) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Chivvying

1. chivvy [v] - See also: chivvy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chivvying

chivariing
chive
chived
chives
chivied
chivies
chiving
chivs
chivved
chivvied
chivvier
chivviers
chivvies
chivving
chivvy
chivvying (current term)
chivy
chivying
chiz
chizz
chizzed
chizzes
chizzing
chk
chk1 protein kinase
chkalovite
chkalovites
chkpt
chks
chladniite

Literary usage of Chivvying

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 (1883)
"Wot hodds if it 's chivvying swells with red ties, doing spoons at the " Gai," Or leading a rush along Fleet Street, as we. did that last Lord Mare's Day ..."

2. The Cornhill Magazine by George Smith (1895)
"... Court he struck across the most unfrequented streets, where only a stray urchin (probably an Episcopalian) was spending the Sabbath chivvying cats, ..."

3. Mr. Punch's History of Modern England by Charles Larcom Graves (1922)
"... and under the heading, "Wild Sports Near the Horse Guards," protested against the "chivvying from their milk- stalls of a lot of poor old women. ..."

4. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1856)
"... to time great injury of other rioters; or in hunting or “chivvying” any footman or remarkable person who should venture umong them; some of these ..."

5. The Whistler Journal by Elizabeth (Robins) Pennell, J[oseph] Pennell (1921)
"Whistler loved nothing so much as chivvying people like Wedmore right to their faces, and this was one of the ways he got his reputation for malice among ..."

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