CHIPPY

Definition: CHIPPY

CHIPPY

Adjective

1. Abounding in, or resembling, chips; dry and tasteless.

Noun

1. A small American sparrow (Spizella socialis), very common near dwelling; -- also called chipping bird and chipping sparrow, from its simple note.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "CHIPPY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1915. (references)

Libertine

Adulteress, advoutress, courtesan, prostitute, strumpet, harlot, whore, punk, fille de joie; woman, woman of the town; streetwalker, Cyprian, miss, piece; frail sisterhood; demirep, wench, trollop, trull, baggage, hussy, drab, bitch, jade, skit, rig, quean, mopsy, minx, harridan; unfortunate, unfortunate female, unfortunate woman; woman of easy virtue; (unchaste); wanton, fornicatress; Jezebel, Messalina, Delilah, Thais, Phryne, Aspasia, Lais, lorette, cocotte, petite dame, grisette; demimonde; chippy; sapphist; spiritual wife; white slave.

Crosswords: CHIPPY

Books

• Chippy Chipmunk Wins the Race (The Adventures of Chuck E Beaver and Friends) (reference)

• Chippy Goes to the Dentist (Happy Ending Books) (reference)

• Colorado Chippy (Spur Giant Special Edition) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Songs From Chippy (1994 Studio Cast) [SOUNDTRACK] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Chippy McGarr. Credit: Library of Congress.

Chippy McCarr. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Expressions using "CHIPPY": chippy user ♦ feel chippy. Additional references.

Bulgarian 

сух (academic, academical, anhydrous, arid, aseptic, bald, brut, chaffy, dried, droughty, dry, fleshless, gaunt, hacking, lean, liny, matter of fact, pedestrian, prosy, rainless, sapless, sec, spare, tearless, undamped, uninspired), раздразнителен (bad tempered, choleric, edgy, excitable, explosive, fretful, gingery, ill, ill tempered, ill-conditioned, irascible, irritable, liverish, livery, nervous, nervy, peevish, pettish, petulant, prickly, querulous, raspy, ratty, snappish, stroppy, techy, tetchy, touchy, vinegary), неразположен (averse, indisposed, mean, off color, off colour, out of sorts, poorly, queer, seedy, squeamish, under the weather, unwell), безинтересен (characterless, dim, frumpish, incurious, languid, milk and water, mousey, sapless, soulless, stupid, unamusing, uninteresting, unreadable, vegetable, vegetal, warmed-over), пропаднала жена, поръбен. (various references)

Czech

dìtsky veverka. (various references)

French

ébréché (chip). (various references)

German

angeschlagen (chipped, shattered, sloshed, struck, tattered). (various references)

Hungarian

csorba (chip, chipped, dent, jagged, nick, nicked, notch, ragged), csaj (broad, chick, dame, drag, girly, jane, Moll, nookie, tail, twist), kurva (bimbo, bitch, doxy, drab, harlot, hooker, hustler, laced mutton, pickup, prostitute, slag, whore, winchester goose). (various references)

Italian

arido (arid, barren, dry, gaunt). (various references)

Manx

speiltagh (renegade, shivered, slit). (various references)

Pig Latin

ippychay.(various references)

Portuguese

cheio de lascas, sem interesse (arid, flat, pet, prosaic, soulless, tame, vapid, vapidity), seco (arid, curt, dabby, dried, hacking, jerky, parched, rainless, sapless, sear, seared, seasoned, sec, sere, stale, thirsty, undamped), maldisposto (fretful, grumpy, queasy, snappish, snappy, snippy, unwell, upstage), indiferente (aloof, callous, chill, chilly, cool, devil-may-care, freezing, frigid, frosty, immaterial, impassible, incurious, indifferent, insensitive, laodicean, listless, lukewarm, negligent, nonchalant, passive, pococurante, reckless, regardless, supine, unconcern, unconcerned, uninterested, unresponsive). (various references)

Romanian

ciobit (nicked), tocit (blunt, dull, edgeless, hackneyed, overwrought, worn out), prostituatã (call girl, doxy, drab, harlot, Moll, prostitute, strumpet, unfortunate, whore), hârbuit (nicked), fleoarţã, bont (blunt, crippled, dull). (various references)

Russian 

раздражительный (apoplectic, bad tempered, bad-tempered, choleric, crab, crabbed, crabby, criss cross, crusty, doggish, fractious, fretful, grouty, grumpy, huffish, huffy, irascible, irritable, livery, ornery, peevish, pettish, petulant, quick tempered, quicktempered, rambunctious, rusty, short tempered, snappish, snooty, snuffy, spleenful, splenetic, testy, touchy), зазубренный (castellated, dentate, denticular, denticulate, denticulated, indented, jagged, ragged, saw edged, saw-edged, toothed). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

kurva (bawd, hooker, pickup, strumpet, whore). (various references)

Spanish

tía (aunt, Auntie, Aunty, packet, tail), fulana (jane smith, tart, tramp). (various references)

Swedish

snickare (carpenter, joiner), fnask (hooker, hustler, jot, Moll, pro, prostitute, scrap, tart, tramp, trifle), fish-and-chipsbutik. (various references)

Turkish

can sıkıcı (aggravating, annoying, boring, bothersome, disagreeable, displeasing, embarrassing, painful, provoking, soul-destroying, soulless, sullen, tedious, unexeciting, vexatious, worrisome, worrying), yontuk, tatsız (arid, disagreeable, distasteful, dull, dusty, flat, flavorless, flavourless, frail, insipid, milk and water, objectionable, queasy, savorless, savourless, sticky, tame, tasteless, ugly, unamusing, uncomfortable, uncongenial, ungracious, unpalatable, unpleasant, unsweetened, unwelcome, vapid, watery), sarhoşluktan olan, orospu (bitch, drab, fancy woman, floozy, harlot, hooker, Moll, painted woman, pro, prostitute, scarlet woman, streetwalker, strumpet, trull, whore), çentikli (crenate, crenated, denticulated, jagged, milled, notched), çentik (chip, cutting, dint, hack, indent, indentation, jag, kerf, knurl, notch, score, snick, tally). (various references)

Ukrainian

рублений, шербатий, шлюха, обламаний, зазублений (castellated, dented, jagged, jaggy, lacerated), повія (baggage, bawd, call girl, cat, harlot, jilt, quean, streetwalker, strumpet, trollop, unfortunate, wagtail, whore, witch). (various references)

Vietnamese 

quàu quạu (cranky, criss-cross), người đàn bà lẳng lơ đĩ thoã, hay cáu (brittle, choleric, grouty, peevish, short-tempered, waxy), gái đĩ. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: hippy.

-2 letters: chip, pipy, pyic.

-3 letters: chi, hic, hip, hyp, ich, icy, phi, pic, pip, yip.

-4 letters: hi, pi.

+2 letters: choppily.

+3 letters: epiphytic, hyperopic.

+4 letters: hyperpneic, periphytic, phenotypic, pinchpenny, polyphasic, polyphonic, pyrophoric.

+5 letters: epiphytotic, hypercapnia, hypercapnic, hyperphagic, hypnopompic, hypomorphic, hypoplastic, pictography, polygraphic, polymorphic, porphyritic, psilophytic, saprophytic, sporophytic, typographic.