Word: chip Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *kippōną Proto-West Germanic *kippōn Old English *ċippiander. Old English ċipp Middle English chippe English chip 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. Pronunciation: /t͡ʃɪp/, [t͡ʃʰɪp] 1. To chop or cut into small pieces. Labels: transitive Example: The workers chipped the dead branches into mulch. Example: 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). 2. To break small pieces from. Labels: transitive Example: Be careful not to chip the paint. 3. To become chipped. Labels: intransitive Example: This varnish chips easily. 4. To chisel (something), to chisel on (something). Labels: dialectal, transitive Example: The fitter was chipping and filing a workpiece clamped in his vise. 5. To use a chisel. Labels: dialectal, intransitive Example: The fitters were chipping and filing furiously to meet their deadline. 6. To strike or play (the ball or other implement) as a chip shot. Labels: transitive Example: 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. 7. To beat (an opposing player) by use of a chip shot, such as by looping the ball over the head of the opposing goalkeeper. Labels: transitive Example: 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. 8. To move (a ball) a relatively short distance by means of an oblique contact. Labels: transitive Example: In potting the black, he also managed to chip the red off the side cushion. 9. To fit (an animal) with a microchip. Labels: informal, transitive 10. To upgrade an engine management system, usually to increase power. Labels: transitive 11. To ante (up). Labels: intransitive, often 12. To contribute. Labels: UK, often, transitive Example: Everyone needs to chip in £1 for George's leaving collection. 13. To make fun of. Example: 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. Example: That sounded a trivial message, but the man began to cry. 'That's her', he sobbed. 'She was always chipping me about my collars'. 14. To kill. Labels: slang