Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

fish and chippery

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: fish and chip-pery
IPA

34

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

2

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Informal

Example Sentences

"Derek smiled at her and said, 'That would have shut him up a bit. He thought that he was in a fish and chippery and there he was in an export factory.'"

Etymology

From fish and chips + -ery.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: fish and chips

Usage

Informal

Inflected Forms

fish and chipperies (plural) fish-and-chippery (alternative)

Questions

What does fish and chippery mean?: A chip shop.
Where does fish and chippery come from?: From fish and chips + -ery.

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