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Cheerful vs Chipper - What's the difference?

cheerful | chipper |

As adjectives the difference between cheerful and chipper

is that cheerful is noticeably happy and optimistic while chipper is exhibiting a lively optimism; in high spirits, cheerful.

As a noun chipper is

a fish and chips shop, or more generally a cheap fast food outlet, typically selling chips and other deep-fried foods.

As a verb chipper is

to chirp or chirrup.

cheerful

English

Alternative forms

* cheerfull (archaic)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Noticeably happy and optimistic.
  • Bright and pleasant.
  • :
  • *
  • *:At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.

    • Synonyms

    * bright * bubbly * ebullient * happy * joyful * optimistic * vivacious

    Antonyms

    * depressed * miserable * sad

    chipper

    English

    (wikipedia chipper)

    Etymology 1

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Exhibiting a lively optimism; in high spirits, cheerful.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=April 29 , author=Nathan Rabin , title=TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Treehouse of Horror III” (season 4, episode 5; originally aired 10/29/1992) citation , page= , passage=The idea of a merchant selling both totems of pure evil and frozen yogurt (he calls it frogurt!) is amusing in itself, as is the idea that frogurt could be cursed, but it’s really the Shopkeeper’s quicksilver shift from ominous doomsaying to chipper salesmanship that sells the sequence.}}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (British, Ireland, slang) A fish and chips shop, or more generally a cheap fast food outlet, typically selling chips and other deep-fried foods.
  • (slang) A deep frier.
  • (US) A machine that reduces organic matter to compost; depending on size, whole tree trunks are reduced to sawdust; a woodchipper.
  • (US) (smoking) An occasional tobacco user, or more generally drug user.
  • A machine that chips potatoes ready to be fried and made into chips.
  • Someone who chips (e.g. wood)
  • A sportsman who chips the ball.
    • Synonyms
    * (cheap food store) greasy spoon, hole in the wall

    Etymology 2

    Compare cheep, chirp.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (UK, dialect) To chirp or chirrup.
    • (Forby)