Usually means: Urging someone persistently to hurry.
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  1. chivvying: Merriam-Webster
  2. chivvying: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. chivvying: Collins English Dictionary
  4. chivvying: Vocabulary.com
  5. chivvying: Wordnik
  6. chivvying: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. chivvying: Wiktionary
  8. chivvying: Dictionary.com
  9. chivvying: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun:  The act of one who chivvies, or hurries somebody along; an urging.

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