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Chivvy

verb
(Also spelled chivy, chevy, and chevvy)
1.
Annoy continually or chronically.  Synonyms: beset, chevvy, chevy, chivy, harass, harry, hassle, molest, plague, provoke.  "This man harasses his female co-workers"






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"Chivvy" Quotes from Famous Books



... They'd chivvy us, them and the blacks and Humpy and t'others. Why, bless you, nothing old ...
— Nic Revel - A White Slave's Adventures in Alligator Land • George Manville Fenn

... "Don't chivvy the child any further," he said, in a low voice. "If he says he'll get rid of them, he will, and that's ...
— Youth • Isaac Asimov



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