chippy
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
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Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *kippōną
Proto-West Germanic *kippōn
Old English *ċippiander.
Old English ċipp
Middle English chippe
English chip
English -y
English chippy
From chip + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: chippies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: chippie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: chippier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: chippiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: chippie
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: chippies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: chippying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: chippied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: chippied
pos: verb
tags: past
form: chippie
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A carpenter.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
slang
examples: Then, when ah wis apprenticed as a chippy wi a Gorgie builder, ah goes along tae Telford College tae dae ma national certificate modules in joinery.
gloss: A prostitute or promiscuous woman.
pos: noun
tags: US
Western
slang
examples: I manage to pick up a living in spite of the damn chippies. I don't see why the hell they don't go into the business regular and make something out of it, instead of loving free.
Don't worry chippy, nobodys gonna hurtya. Maybe fuckya a little[…]
$80 for a chippy? I can get a goddamn horse for $50!
I give the pictures of the wife and the lawn boy to the husband. I give the pictures of the husband and the chippy to the wife.
Canby hints that, even with chippies, sexual intercourse was rare; even putting aside his complete lack of regard for the chippy as an actual human being, however, this passage makes clear that whatever did occur with these chippies may not have been as consensual as he presumed.⁷²
When Victor Laszlo leads the demoralized French in the “Marseilles^([sic – meaning Marseillaise]),” and even Yvonne, the chippy who is sleeping with a Nazi officer, joins in, the stoniest intellectual collapses in tears.
gloss: A fish-and-chip shop.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
informal
examples: Huge queues form outside the Chippy, often stretching back to the Coop and beyond.
Albert was flabbergasted. Yer really buyin′ a chippy?” Tom smiled whilst nodding his head. “That′s me plan.”
gloss: The youngest member of a team or group, normally someone whose voice has not yet deepened, talking like a chipmunk.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
slang
gloss: A potato chip.
pos: noun
tags: New-Zealand
colloquial
examples: why fish? for food so we can have it in our chippies
gloss: A chiptune.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: A chipping sparrow.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: 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.
Surely no young chippy was ever so stout and so emphatic as this bird.
The funny part of it all is that the starling appears to make the chippies do whatever it pleases.
How early in the season does the chippy appear and where does it spend the winter?
gloss: An occasional drug habit, less than addiction.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: Ill-tempered, disagreeable.
pos: adj
tags: Canada
UK
examples: 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!
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.
gloss: Involving violence or unfair play.
pos: adj
tags: Canada
US
examples: 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.
gloss: Tending to form chips when cut, rather than larger, more usable pieces of wood.
pos: adj
gloss: As dry as a chip of wood.
pos: adj
tags: dated
gloss: Feeling sick from drinking alcohol; hungover.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
gloss: To take drugs (especially heroin) on an occasional basis, rather than as an addict.
pos: verb
tags: slang
examples: I chippy around but haven't been hooked in a year now.
The heroin user in the United States typically "chippies" for some time before becoming a regular user.
For the most part, the players who are "chippying" with heroin think that they have their heroin use under control […]
Related words: fish and chippies
chippily
Derived words: chippy-chaser
chippy joint
chippy sauce
chippy tea
chippiness
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