Chipper vs Chippier - What's the difference?
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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.
(chippy)
(British) A fish-and-chip shop.
* 2008 , Patrick Naughton, Whistle Wood, Land of the Fathers ,
* 2009 , John Wise, Sweet Dreams ,
(British, Australia, New Zealand, slang) A carpenter.
(Australia, slang) The youngest member of a team or group, normally someone whose voice has not yet deepened, talking like a chipmunk.
(New Zealand) A potato chip.
(US, slang) A prostitute or promiscuous woman.
* 2004 , William Lashner, Fatal Flaw ,
* 2008 , Nicholas L. Syrett, The Company He Keeps: A History of White College Fraternities ,
(demoscene, informal) A chiptune.
(US) A chipping sparrow.
* 1902 , Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock, The Granite Monthly: A New Hampshire magazine devoted to history, biography, literature, and state progress , Volume 32,
* 1908 , Alice Lounsberry, The Garden Book for Young People ,
* 1939 , Anna Botsford Comstock, Handbook of Nature Study ,
(Canada, UK) Ill-tempered, disagreeable.
(Canada, sports) Involving violence or unfair play.
* 2007 , Canadian Interuniversity Sport, cisport.ca,
(of wood) Tending to form chips when cut, rather than larger, more usable pieces of wood.
As adjectives the difference between chipper and chippier
is that chipper is exhibiting a lively optimism; in high spirits, cheerful while chippier is comparative of chippy.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.chipper
English
(wikipedia chipper)Etymology 1
Adjective
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Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (cheap food store) greasy spoon, hole in the wallEtymology 2
Compare cheep, chirp.chippier
English
Adjective
(head)chippy
English
Alternative forms
* chippieNoun
(chippies)page 33,
- Huge queues form outside the Chippy , often stretching back to the Coop and beyond.
page 308,
- Albert was flabbergasted. Yer really buyin? a chippy ?”
- Tom smiled whilst nodding his head. “That?s me plan.”
page 280,
- 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.
page 176,
- 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
page 385,
- 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.
page 139,
- 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.
page 88,
- How early in the season does the chippy appear and where does it spend the winter?
Derived terms
* chippy-chaser, chippy jointSynonyms
* (fish-and-chips shop) chipperAdjective
(er)- 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.