chippy
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈtʃɪpi/
chippy (plural chippies)
- (British, slang) A fish-and-chip shop.
- Tom smiled whilst nodding his head. “That′s me plan.”
- (British, Australia, New Zealand, slang) A carpenter.
- (Australia, slang) The youngest member of a team or group, normally someone whose voice has not yet deepened, talking like a chipmunk.
- (New Zealand) A potato chip.
- (US, slang) A prostitute or promiscuous woman.
- (demoscene, informal) A chiptune.
- (US) A chipping sparrow.
- 1902, Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock, The Granite Monthly: A New Hampshire magazine devoted to history, biography, literature, and state progress, Volume 32, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=2bEVAAAAYAAJ&q=%22chippy%22|%22chippies%22+-intitle:%22chippy%22+-inauthor:%22%22&dq=%22chippy%22|%22chippies%22+-intitle:%22chippy%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=oOAkT-b5COGhiAeCg9j2BA&redir_esc=y page 385],
- In due time a nest-full of little chippies appear to be nourished with insectiverous
[ sic] food from a parental beak until fledged and able to look after themselves. - The funny part of it all is that the starling appears to make the chippies do whatever it pleases.
- In due time a nest-full of little chippies appear to be nourished with insectiverous
- 1902, Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock, The Granite Monthly: A New Hampshire magazine devoted to history, biography, literature, and state progress, Volume 32, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=2bEVAAAAYAAJ&q=%22chippy%22|%22chippies%22+-intitle:%22chippy%22+-inauthor:%22%22&dq=%22chippy%22|%22chippies%22+-intitle:%22chippy%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=oOAkT-b5COGhiAeCg9j2BA&redir_esc=y page 385],
- (fish-and-chips shop) chipper
chippy (comparative chippier, superlative chippiest)
- (Canada, UK) Ill-tempered, disagreeable.
- 1885, W. S. Gilbert, The Mikado, Act I
- To sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock,
- In a pestilential prison, with a life-long lock,
- Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock,
- From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block!
- 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, Bloomsbury, 2005, Chapter 5,
- There was something so irksome about Barry Groom that he had a fascination: you longed for him to annoy you again. He was incredibly chippy, was that the thing?—all his longings came out as a kind of disdain for what he longed for.
- 1885, W. S. Gilbert, The Mikado, Act I
- (Canada, sports) Involving violence or unfair play.
- 2007, Canadian Interuniversity Sport, cisport.ca,
- The University of Lethbridge Pronghorns and University of Saskatchewan Huskies battled to a 1-1 draw in a chippy Canada West men’s soccer affair that saw the teams combine for 33 fouls and five yellow cards.
- 2007, Canadian Interuniversity Sport, cisport.ca,
- (of wood) Tending to form chips when cut, rather than larger, more usable pieces of wood.
- (dated) As dry as a chip of wood.
- (archaic) Feeling sick from drinking alcohol; hung over.
- chippily
chippy (chippies, present participle chippying; past and past participle chippied)
- (slang) To take drugs (especially heroin) on an occasional basis, rather than as an addict. [from 20th c.]
- 1974, Eric Josephson, Eleanor Elizabeth Carroll, Columbia University. School of Public Health and Administrative Medicine, Drug use: epidemiological and sociological approaches (page 110)
- The heroin user in the United States typically "chippies" for some time before becoming a regular user.
- 1952, William S. Burroughs, in Harris (ed.), Letters 1945–59, Penguin 2009, p. 104:
- I chippy around but haven't been hooked in a year now.
- 1974, Eric Josephson, Eleanor Elizabeth Carroll, Columbia University. School of Public Health and Administrative Medicine, Drug use: epidemiological and sociological approaches (page 110)
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