“And yet I’ve never heard that word used in normal conversation, including here, and neither have you, or you’d cite the instances.”
Have you already forgotten Tom Clancy and his use of the word (”had spent two weeks chivvying this division toward combat readiness.)?
This is kinda fun.
"had spent two weeks chivvying this division toward combat readiness"
You will find that this phrase, from the Tom Clancy book, is the "go to" example used by most online dictionaries to demonstrate the use of the word "chivvying" in a sentence. Don't be fooled by the disingenuous demojeff, who just tried to pass it off as information that he "remembered". Shame on us for having "already forgotten Tom Clancy and his use of the word". Indeed. Bravo Sierra to you, demojeff.