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Definition of Chippy
1. a. Abounding in, or resembling, chips; dry and tasteless.
2. n. A small American sparrow (Spizella socialis), very common near dwelling; -- also called chipping bird and chipping sparrow, from its simple note.
Definition of Chippy
1. Noun. (British) A fish-and-chip shop. ¹
2. Noun. (British Australia New Zealand slang) A carpenter. ¹
3. Noun. (Australia slang) The youngest member of a team or group, normally someone whose voice has not yet deepened, talking like a chipmunk. ¹
4. Noun. (New Zealand) A potato chip. ¹
5. Noun. (US slang) A prostitute or promiscuous woman. ¹
6. Noun. (demoscene informal) A chiptune. ¹
7. Noun. (American English) A chipping sparrow. ¹
8. Adjective. (Canada UK) Ill-tempered, disagreeable. ¹
9. Adjective. (Canada sports) Involving violence or unfair play. ¹
10. Adjective. (context: of wood) Tending to form chips when cut, rather than larger, more usable pieces of wood. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Chippy
1. belligerent [adj -PIER, -PIEST] / a prostitute [n -PIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chippy
Literary usage of Chippy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Nineteenth Century (1882)
"and then she'd put her head under a sort of a great thing like a cart-cover, and
she and chippy would seem as if they was a talking, and chippy a tellin' of ..."
2. Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America: With Introductory Chapters on by Frank Michler Chapman (1912)
"chippy makes his nest in the vines on our piazza, and feeds on the ... His song
is a monotonous chippy- chippy-chippy-chippy, rather high and wiry and ..."
3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1870)
"At night "chippy" roosted upon a rope inside the tent, or frequently under an
umbrella, which, for the purpose of shading a thermometer, hung at the corner ..."
4. American Phonography by William Lincoln Anderson (1908)
"One day when 250 I was away chippy saw a box under the tree. ... chippy was caught
in a trap. The boy who had set the trap carried chippy home and put him ..."
5. Handbook of Nature-study for Teachers and Parents, Based on the Cornell by Anna Botsford Comstock (1911)
"The chippy comes to us in April and usually raises two broods of from three to
five "piggish" youngsters, which even after they are fully grown follow ..."
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