What's the difference between chappy and chippy?

Chappy


Definition:

  • () Full of chaps; cleft; gaping; open.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There is a cheeky chappy side to Mr Duterte that can be engaging.
  • (2) The humans in Chappie take great pleasure in introducing their new friend to art and culture, while encouraging his own efforts to create.
  • (3) However, when Olly Murs releases cheeky-chappy ska-lite single, Hooray!
  • (4) Pitch Strenuous workouts leavened by lots of cheeky-chappie banter.
  • (5) 3.16am BST 4 mins: We're hearing that the referee tonight is something of a red card happy chappy.
  • (6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Patel, best known for Slumdog Millionaire, plays a scientist who has programmed Chappie with artificial intelligence, and yet the relationship between the robot and his creator is more akin to father and son.
  • (7) Meanwhile March’s Chappie is District 9 director Neill Blomkamp’s return to the streets of metropolitan South Africa in the company of a Short Circuit-style sapient robot and Die Antwoord members Yolandi and Ninja.
  • (8) A cheerful chappy Carlosh, looking very like that king the Portuguese threw a bomb at.
  • (9) He stands squarely in the British tradition of cheeky chappies."
  • (10) The audience lap up his cheeky-chappie shtick (in Scotland, we’d call him gallus ), because he’s acknowledged that he’s one of them, and they feel ownership.
  • (11) 11.07pm GMT More on this chappie West Brom have signed, courtesy of publishing sensation Sid Lowe : Sid Lowe (@sidlowe) Thievy to WBA an interesting one.
  • (12) Updated at 7.16pm BST 6.47pm BST Roger Kirkby emails from SoCal: Well me and my stat happy chappies are watching the game in a bar with bloody Mary's and breakfast sandwiches.
  • (13) says Sue Robinson of Hillier nursery, bringing out "Woodland Wilf", a fluorescent pink, pointy-headed chappie with two lurid orange buckets.
  • (14) It can’t always be cheeky fucking chappie and in your face.
  • (15) Now comes the long-awaited Chappie , which promises to be a 21st century Short Circuit – if the cult 1980s action-comedy romp had been set in Johannesburg and co-starred Die Antwoord .
  • (16) We’re charming chappies generally, we’ve made an institution of being nice to people.” • A midlife crisis “I’ve learned how to use the Twitter.” “We’re listening to you.
  • (17) Chappie sees the film-maker back on the streets of South Africa, with a cast that mixes local talent including Die Antwoord’s Yo-Landi Visser with Hollywood stars Dev Patel, Hugh Jackman and Sigourney Weaver.
  • (18) The Prince of Wales, who believes the Luftwaffe did less damage to London than modern architects , has been sniping at One New Change since 2005, when he wrote to the developers, Land Securities, hoping to get Nouvel off the job and have him replaced by one of his "traditionalist" chappies .
  • (19) Before I picked up Moby ’s new memoir, Porcelain , I thought of him as a small, bald, cheeky chappy who made tuneful dance music.
  • (20) When Jackman, playing a mulleted meanie named Vincent, expresses concern that Chappie might be unpredictable, he is presented as a villain rather than the voice of reason.

Chippy


Definition:

  • (a.) Abounding in, or resembling, chips; dry and tasteless.
  • (n.) A small American sparrow (Spizella socialis), very common near dwelling; -- also called chipping bird and chipping sparrow, from its simple note.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Not because we are “chippy, moronic gits” (thank you, Twitter), but because we do not see the social benefit of a two-tier education system that provides a small minority with vastly more opportunities than the rest.
  • (2) Described by those who know him as proud of his northern roots, without being chippy, and he is in many ways the consummate insider, with a network of high-level contacts in the City, including chief executives and the powerful financial PRs who control access to them.
  • (3) There is also a decent chippy and an excellent south Indian restaurant, Sanminis .
  • (4) Waiting for his lunch in a chippy barely a throw-in away from Sheffield United’s ground, Kieron Flowers looks mournful when asked about the club’s former striker Ched Evans .
  • (5) He also declares himself a "chippy Stratfordian", offended by those who doubt a provincial glover's son could have written the plays.
  • (6) 83 min: "Re: Jonathan Francis's chippy email," writes John Allen.
  • (7) It’s more Camden or something like that.” Without sounding very chippy, I have to say it looks to me incredibly fitting.The tone of that red is absolute old colonel’s cords.
  • (8) Emphasis on "probably", given his paper's consistently vicious coverage of Diane Abbott who has been described as " daft " and " chippy ".
  • (9) Is he suddenly hungry for the limelight again or chippy about the unexpected restoration of the Tories Etonian ancien régime which he had thought banished?
  • (10) Maybe it was only inexperience that made her seem so unsympathetic – chippy, charmless, alienating.
  • (11) Recent episodes have expanded on the fruit-stall-as-metaphor-for-emotional-rejuvenation theme, with shots of the ex-chippy magnate sighing at customers, his paunch peering tentatively over his post-traumatic bumbag in a fashion that suggested normality – if not, perhaps, dignity – was imminent.
  • (12) Usually such end-of-season events are relaxed affairs: “Tell us how you won”, “Who was the most important player?”, “Which game was key?” But Mourinho was as chippy as ever.
  • (13) It was a real chippy call on Rogers who pushed Golden Tate close to the sideline, total ticky-tack call.
  • (14) • 0: The number of officials from other clubs with whom Manchester United are prepared to negotiate over the sale of chippy striker Robin van Persie this summer.
  • (15) In what will come as welcome news to defenders across the land, chippy Chelsea striker Diego Costa may also be leaving these shores to gouge, elbow, snarl and kick his way around his old La Liga stamping ground.
  • (16) There was Tim, the tall, smart one; Paul, the good-looking short one who seemed infinitely chippy; and Richard, who played the guitar and was the gamma to the group's two alphas – and they were a revelation.
  • (17) One senior MP said: "It is only the chippy reverse snobs in the police who could imagine that Andrew would describe them as plebs.
  • (18) The task will get harder in 2015 if, as many predict, Jarosław Kaczyński – a chippy, bristling rightwing nationalist – becomes Poland’s prime minister.
  • (19) In an increasingly tetchy conference call with reporters, Steiner denied that he was sounding "chippy" about the negative coverage from the press and the City in the run-up to the float.
  • (20) She said Berwick had the worst of English and Scottish traits, a horrible accent and a chippiness that came from being a border town.

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