chivvier

English

Etymology

chivvy +‎ -er

Noun

chivvier (plural chivviers)

Agent noun of chivvy: one who chivvies; especially a hunter.
- 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, OCLC 1227855:
  She greeted me with one of those piercing view-halloos which she had picked up on the hunting field in the days when she had been an energetic chivvier of the British fox.

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