chipper
/ˈt͡ʃɪpɚ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.84 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
noun
Someone who or something which chips (e.g. wood).
noun
Someone who or something which chips (e.g. wood).
noun
A fish and chip shop, or more generally a cheap fast food outlet, typically selling chips and other deep-fried foods.
Slang
noun
A company that manufactures potato chips/potato crisps.
noun
A golf club for making chip shots.
Example Sentences
- "Van Halen orders garlic strewn about Lucy's bedroom. she feels a bit chipperer the next morning, so Mina heads off to help poor Harker in Budapest."
- "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."
- ""Sure, but she's not saying." Imrich kicked his feet up on the coffee table, dislodging a pile of research papers — hers, of course — onto the floor. She tried not to twitch. Laiken twitched a lot, and it was irritating. "Personally I think she has the magical ability to not notice she's working for an arguably evil worldwide truth suppression conspiracy. Nobody at the SCP Foundation ought to be that goddamn chipper.""
- "Used for chopping large blocks of chocolate into small pieces, a chocolate chipper looks like a large fork with six thin, very sharp, pointed metal fingers. To use the chipper, hold it straight up and down and press it firmly[…]"
- "NR workers feed the cleared vegetation into a chipper."
- "'Yes, and CCTV on the drink link and at Fabio's chipper.'"
Etymology
From English dialectal kipper (“nimble; frisky”), of obscure origin. Perhaps akin to Old Norse kjapt (“briskly; impetuously”), kippa ("to snatch; pull; jerk" > Middle English kippen (“to seize”)), kipra (“to wrinkle; draw tightly”), Norwegian kjapp (“fast; brisk”), Dutch kippen (“to seize; catch; grip”). More at kip.
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈt͡ʃɪpɚ/
- British English: /ˈtʃɪpə/
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Sports.