chivvied

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• chivvied — chiv·vy || tʃɪvɪ v. nag; pester somebody; annoy someone persistently …   English contemporary dictionary

• chivvy — UK [ˈtʃɪvɪ] / US verb [transitive] Word forms chivvy : present tense I/you/we/they chivvy he/she/it chivvies present participle chivvying past tense chivvied past participle chivvied British to try to persuade someone to do something or to hurry… …   English dictionary

• chiv|vy — «CHIHV ee», verb, vied, vy|ing, noun, plural vies. –v.t. 1. to chase: »... clients who have just been chivvied abruptly out of their rightful train (Punch). She [the ship] came…with an armada of boats and aircraft to chivvy her along (Manchester… …   Useful english dictionary

• chivy — or chivvy transitive verb (chivied or chivvied; chivying or chivvying) Etymology: chivy, noun, chase, hunt, probably from English dialect Chevy Chase chase, confusion, from the name of a ballad describing the battle of Otterburn (1388) Date: 1918 …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• Paul Dirac — Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac Born Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac 8 August 1902(1902 08 08) Bristol, England …   Wikipedia

• chivy — or chivvy [chiv′ē] n. pl. chivies or chivvies Brit. a hunt; chase vt., vi. chivied or chivvied, chivying or chivvying 1. to fret; harass; …   Universalium

• chivvy — /chiv ee/, v.t., v.i., chivvied, chivvying, n., pl. chivvies. chevy. Also, chivy. * * * …   Universalium

• chivvy — chiv|vy chivy [ˈtʃıvi] v past tense and past participle chivvied present participle chivvying third person singular chivvies [T] BrE informal [Date: 1700 1800; Origin: Chevy Chase, place near the border between England and Scotland where a battle …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• chivvy — chiv|vy [ tʃıvi ] verb transitive BRITISH to try to persuade someone to do something or to hurry them, especially when they do not really feel like it: chivvy someone into (doing) something: She chivvied me into buying a bigger car. chivvy… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• chivvy — [[t]tʃɪ̱vi[/t]] chivvies, chivvying, chivvied VERB If you chivvy someone, you keep telling them to do something that they do not want to do. [BRIT] [V n into ing/n] There, the health care authority chivvies doctors into doing more preventive… …   English dictionary

• goose —    1. obsolete    a prostitute    The common avian imagery. If she were a Winchester goose, she had syphilis, from the insalubrious church owned property in south London where the meaner prostitutes lived:     ... but that my fear is this Some… …   How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms