Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - chivvy

(chivvies, chivvying, chivvied) If you chivvy someone, you keep telling them to do something that they do not want to do. (BRIT) Jovial ladies chivvy you into ordering more than you can eat!... He chivvies the troops along with a few well-directed words. VERB: V n into -ing/n, V n with adv, also V n to-inf, V n, V n prep