chippy (redirected from chippies)

chip·py or chip·pie  (chp)

n. pl. chip·pies

1. A chipping sparrow.

2. Slang A woman prostitute.

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[From chip.]

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chippy¹

n pl -pies

1. (Business / Commerce) Brit informal a fish-and-chip shop

2. (Clothing, Personal Arts & Crafts / Crafts) Brit and NZ a slang word for carpenter

3. (Cookery) NZ a potato crisp

[from chip (n)]

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chippy²

adj -pier, -piest

Informal resentful or oversensitive about being perceived as inferior a chippy miner's son

[from chip (sense 12)]

chippiness  n

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chippy³, chippie [ˈtʃɪpɪ]

n pl -pies

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) an informal name for chipmunk, chipping sparrow

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chippy⁴, chippie [ˈtʃɪpɪ]

n pl -pies

Informal chiefly US and Canadian a promiscuous woman

[perhaps from chip (n)]

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chippy⁵

adj -pier, -piest

belligerent or touchy

[from chip (n), sense probably developing from: as dry as a chip of wood, hence irritable, touchy]

Translations

chippy [ˈtʃɪpɪ] N

1. (US) → tía f, fulana f

2. (Brit) tienda que vende pescado frito con patatas fritas

chippy chippie [ˈtʃɪpi] n (British)

(= chip shop) → friterie f
chip shop n (British) → friterie f

chippy

n (inf)

(= joiner) → Schreiner m

(= chip shop) → Imbiss- or Frittenbude f (inf)