chip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: chĭp
ipa: /t͡ʃɪp/
rhymes: -ɪp
Forms: form: chips
form: chipping
form: chipped
form: chipped
Etymology: Noun from Middle English chip, chippe, from Old English ċipp (“chip; small piece of wood, shaving”), from Old English *ċippian (“to cut; hew”) – attested in Old English forċippian (“to cut off”) –, from Proto-West Germanic *kippōn (“to cut; carve; hack; chop”), from Proto-Germanic *kippōną (“to chip, chop”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵeyb- (“to split; divide; germinate; sprout”). Related to Dutch kip, keep (“notch; nick; score”), Dutch kippen (“to hatch”), German Low German kippen (“to cut; clip; trim; shorten”), German kipfen (“to chop off the tip; snip”), Old Swedish kippa (“to chop”). Compare also chop.
The formally similar Old English ċipp, ċypp, ċyp (“a beam; log; stock; post”), from Proto-Germanic *kippaz (“log; beam”) (whence Old Saxon kip (“post”), Old High German kipfa, chipfa (“axle, stave”), Old Norse keppr (“cudgel, club”)) is a different, unrelated word either borrowed from Latin cippus (“stake; pale; post”) or borrowed from the same source language as the Latin.
Verb from Middle English chippen, from Old English *ċippian (“to cut; hew”) – attested in Old English forċippian (“to cut off”) – see above.
Senses: examples: text: The workers chipped the dead branches into mulch.
text: Once it [a snowdrop variety] became established, some bulbs were lifted and passed on to be chipped (i.e. cut into small pieces and grown on).
ref: 2015 February 7, Val Bourne, “The quiet man of the world of snowdrops”, in The Daily Telegraph (London), page G8:
glosses: To chop or cut into small pieces.
examples: text: Be careful not to chip the paint.
glosses: To break small pieces from.
examples: text: This varnish chips easily.
glosses: To become chipped.
examples: text: The fitter was chipping and filing a workpiece clamped in his vise.
glosses: To chisel (something), to chisel on (something).
examples: text: The fitters were chipping and filing furiously to meet their deadline.
glosses: To use a chisel.
examples: text: Koeman identified Southampton’s third as their finest goal of the game. Jack Cork, the most underrated player at a much-lauded club, swept the ball out wide to Tadic, who waited for Cork to run to the back post before chipping the ball across to him to slam in a deserved goal from close range, despite an attempted block by Vito Mannone.
ref: 2014 October 18, Paul Doyle, “Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter”, in The Guardian:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To strike or play (the ball or other implement) as a chip shot.
examples: text: Typically when someone scores a stunning goal this early in the season — it’s only Week 2 — it gets forgotten, or at the very least lost in the shuffle after eight more months of worthy GOTY candidates. Not this year, though, because no one is forgetting Amarikwa chipping Adam Kwarasey from 35 yards out and burying the ball in the top corner.
ref: 2016 March 13, Andy Edwards, “VIDEO: San Jose’s Quincy Amarikwa chips, goes upper-90 from 35 yards out”, in NBCSports.com:
qualifier: sports such as soccer
glosses: To beat (an opposing player) by use of a chip shot, such as by looping the ball over the head of the opposing goalkeeper.
examples: text: In potting the black, he also managed to chip the red off the side cushion.
topics: ball-games
billiards
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To move (a ball) a relatively short distance by means of an oblique contact.
coordinate_terms: earmark#Verb
brand#Verb
glosses: To fit (an animal) with a microchip.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: To upgrade an engine management system, usually to increase power.
topics: card-games
games
glosses: To ante (up).
raw_tags: with "in"
examples: text: Everyone needs to chip in £1 for George's leaving collection.
glosses: To contribute.
raw_tags: with "in"
examples: text: They chip me about giving that young judy the cross; but I dont care: I stand up to them proper, and tell them that if she hadnt a better right to it than they, she'd be where they are.
ref: 1923, George Bernard Shaw, Saint Joan:
text: That sounded a trivial message, but the man began to cry. 'That's her', he sobbed. 'She was always chipping me about my collars'.
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
qualifier: also to chip at
glosses: To make fun of.
Derived terms: chip and charge
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