fish-and-chippy

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.62 in modern English

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noun

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"There is still no fishmonger, although there is a fish-and-chippy."
"The trattoria was becoming popular and was edging out the ‘greasy spoon’ and even the fish-and-chippy."
"In 1993–94, I lived in the picturesque southern English town of Canterbury, Kent, in a very small apartment above a health-food shop and a “fish-and-chippy.”"
"‘That will happen wherever I go, because most of the chefs around here couldn’t tell the difference between a brûlée and a blowfly.’ / ‘But you won’t be working anywhere else. You’ll be on garden leave. Unless you fancy opening a fish-and-chippy in Ulladulla?’ Jim offers."
"Spouting hot oil, and with the fish-and-chippy odour characteristic of internal combustion when it goes external with a bang, the blue E.R.A. drew over and nuzzled in close to the hedge, yielding precedence to the works three-speeder, which thereafter had the race in the basket, going on to win at a decimal under 91 m.p.h. from the four-cylinder Maseratis of Bianco and Sofietti."
"Everything’s so stale and orange-peely and fish-and-chippy!"

From fish and chip + -y.

fish-and-chippies (plural) fish and chippy (alternative) fish and chippie (alternative) more fish-and-chippy (comparative) most fish-and-chippy (superlative)