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Clipper vs Chipper - What's the difference?

clipper | chipper |

As nouns the difference between clipper and chipper

is that clipper is anything that clips while 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.

As an adjective chipper is

exhibiting a lively optimism; in high spirits, cheerful.

As a verb chipper is

(uk|dialect) to chirp or chirrup.

clipper

English

Noun

(wikipedia clipper) (en noun)
  • Anything that clips.
  • * 2010 , James Morrow, The Last Witchfinder
    • Surtouts billowing in an unseasonably fierce wind, the ursine Chelmsford magistrate and his equally bulky constable herded their bound prisoners – three murderers, three thieves, a coin clipper , two convicted witches – across the Common
  • (chiefly, in the plural) A tool used for clipping something, such as hair, coins, or fingernails.
  • Something that moves swiftly; especially:
  • # (nautical) Any of several forms of very fast sailing ships having a long, low hull and a sharply raked stem.
  • # (informal) An Alberta clipper.
  • (electronics) A circuit which prevents the amplitude of a wave from exceeding a set value.

    • Derived terms

    * (Dutch; nautical ) klipper, klipperaak (g) * Alberta clipper

    See also

    * Clipper chip

    Anagrams

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    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)