chivvy

Other forms of chivvy

past tense

chivvied·

present participle

chivvying·

third person

chivvies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about chivvy

What does chivvy mean?

chivvy means "annoy continually or chronically".

How many syllables are in chivvy?

chivvy has 2 syllables: chiv-vy. The stress falls on "vy".

What is another word for chivvy?

Close synonyms include harass, hassle, harry, chivy, chevy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is chivvy a common word?

chivvy is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.