Crossword clues for chippy
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sparrow \Spar"row\, n. [OE. sparwe, AS. spearwa; akin to OHG. sparo, G. sperling, Icel. sp["o]rr, Dan. spurv, spurre, Sw. sparf, Goth. sparwa; -- originally, probably, the quiverer or flutterer, and akin to E. spurn. See Spurn, and cf. Spavin.]
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(Zo["o]l.) One of many species of small singing birds of the family Fringillig[ae], having conical bills, and feeding chiefly on seeds. Many sparrows are called also finches, and buntings. The common sparrow, or house sparrow, of Europe ( Passer domesticus) is noted for its familiarity, its voracity, its attachment to its young, and its fecundity. See House sparrow, under House.
Note: The following American species are well known; the chipping sparrow, or chippy, the sage sparrow, the savanna sparrow, the song sparrow, the tree sparrow, and the white-throated sparrow (see Peabody bird). See these terms under Sage, Savanna, etc.
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(Zo["o]l.) Any one of several small singing birds somewhat resembling the true sparrows in form or habits, as the European hedge sparrow. See under Hedge. He that doth the ravens feed, Yea, providently caters for the sparrow, Be comfort to my age! --Shak. Field sparrow, Fox sparrow, etc. See under Field, Fox, etc. Sparrow bill, a small nail; a castiron shoe nail; a sparable. Sparrow hawk. (Zo["o]l.)
A small European hawk ( Accipiter nisus) or any of the allied species.
A small American falcon ( Falco sparverius).
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The Australian collared sparrow hawk ( Accipiter torquatus).
Note: The name is applied to other small hawks, as the European kestrel and the New Zealand quail hawk.
Sparrow owl (Zo["o]l.), a small owl ( Glaucidium passerinum) found both in the Old World and the New. The name is also applied to other species of small owls.
Sparrow spear (Zo["o]l.), the female of the reed bunting.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"promiscuous young woman; prostitute," 1880, U.S. slang, earlier (1864) short for chipping-bird "sparrow," perhaps ultimately a variant of cheep.
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context Canada UK English) ill-tempered, disagreeable. 2 (context Canada sports English) Involving violence or unfair play. 3 (context of wood English) Tending to form chips when cut, rather than larger, more usable pieces of wood. n. 1 (context British English) A fish and chips shop. 2 (context British Australia New Zealand slang English) A carpenter. 3 (context Australia slang English) The youngest member of a team or group, normally someone whose voice has not yet deepened, talking like a chipmunk. 4 (context New Zealand English) A potato chip. 5 (context US slang English) A prostitute or promiscuous woman. 6 (context demoscene informal English) A chiptune. 7 (context US English) A chipping sparrow.
Wikipedia
Chippy may refer to:
- A shop serving the traditional British dish fish and chips
- ( UK) British Army slang for a soldier in a unit perceived as being generic and replaceable (see above)
- (UK) Royal Air Force's affectionate nickname for the De Havilland Chipmunk trainer
- A slang term for a carpenter
- A slang term for a prostitute
- Chippy (album), an album of songs from a play of the same name
- Mrs. Chippy, a cat who accompanied Sir Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914–17
- Zippy Chippy, a racehorse who has lost over 100 races
- Chippy (actress) (born 1975), Indian actress in Malayalam and Kannada films
- Chippy (videogame), a time management videogame produced by Glitchers
- A brand of corn chips in the Philippines made by Universal Robina
Chippy, also known as Songs from "Chippy", is an album by Terry Allen, Joe Ely, Butch Hancock, Robert Earl Keen, Wayne Hancock, Jo Harvey Allen and Jo Carol Pierce. It includes original music from the play, Chippy, which was written by Jo Harvey and Terry Allen and commissioned by the American Music Theater Festival, Philadelphia, where it received its world premiere in 1994.
Chippy (Credited as Shilpa in Kannada films) is an actress in the South Indian film industry and works primarily in Malayalam and Kannada films.She won Filmfare Award for Best Actress - Kannada & Karnataka State Film Award for Best Actress for her performance in Janumada Jodi.
Usage examples of "chippy".
Dozo Doyle goes, eatin ehs fish n clockin a couple ay boys that went intae the chippy.
Dozo and Brian Doyle at the chippy at the Cross, then doon tae the Longstone tae meet Gentleman and that Polmont boy.
THE STORY: There are people who might consider Chippy Wager unethical and others who go a great deal further.
They pay those lads plenty, but Chippy had usesfor money, mainly liquid, and he made another income on the side by taking photographs privately of practically everything from the Mayor and Corporation to the local beauty queen.
From my own purely personal point of view the thing was becoming a nightmare, and the principal reason for that was Chippy Wager.
By the time the murderer had got round to St Piers, Chippy was most anxious that the homicidal nut should be apprehended and the case finished.
I managed to avoid Chippy going down, but I saw his back disappearing into the Railway Tavern as I picked up a taxi at the station.
Someone had asked if Chippy had gone since he had not seen him lately, while somebody else observed that he too had noticed a singular freshness in the atmosphere.
From that moment I hunted Chippy as he had never hunted me, and it was not too easy an undertaking, since, as I have said, the place was stiff with pressmen and I was more than anxious not to raise any general hue and cry.
I could feel Chippy trying to shake me off, and after a while I realised that he was going somewhere in particular, heading somewhere definitely if obliquely, like a wasp to its nest.
He was still beaming, but the vacancy of his broad face intensified, if one can say such a thing, and I knew he must have ceased to hear anything Chippy was telling him long ago.
He rattled the money I gave him in the till and waddled off again, after nodding to Chippy in a secret important way I entirely misunderstood.
I could see by the way Chippy took the parcel that it was important, but he was so casual, or so drunk, that he almost dropped it, and did scatter some of the coins that he gave the boy.
As soon as the kid had gone, Chippy tore the paper off the roll and I could see it consisted of four or five huge blown-up photographic prints, but he did not open them out, contenting himself with little squints at each corner, and I could see nothing.
I yelled at Chippy and started after him, pausing on the threshold to glance back.