Chipped vs Chipper - What's the difference?
chipped | chipper |
having a chip (small piece) or chips missing
(automotive) (no comparative or superlative ) having had the engine management system upgraded, usually to increase power
(chip)
Exhibiting a lively optimism; in high spirits, cheerful.
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(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.
As adjectives the difference between chipped and chipper
is that chipped is having a chip (small piece) or chips missing while chipper is exhibiting a lively optimism; in high spirits, cheerful.As verbs the difference between chipped and chipper
is that chipped is (chip) while chipper is (uk|dialect) to chirp or chirrup.As a noun chipper is
(british|ireland|slang) a fish and chips shop, or more generally a cheap fast food outlet, typically selling chips and other deep-fried foods.chipped
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- a chipped plate
Verb
(head)chipper
English
(wikipedia chipper)Etymology 1
Adjective
(en adjective)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.}}