What's the difference between chipper and chippy?

Chipper


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To chirp or chirrup.
  • (a.) Lively; cheerful; talkative.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The transition from the Chipper Jones era to the Upton era is going less than smoothly – Justin, who still has a ways to go to reach his full capabilities, looks like Babe Ruth compared to BJ, who is hitting .179.
  • (2) Chippers did not seem to be compensating; their cotinine values equaled those expected when regular smokers were not compensating for reduced cigarette availability.
  • (3) This study explores the behavior of tobacco "chippers"--very light smokers who regularly use tobacco without developing dependence.
  • (4) Chippers' blood nicotine levels increased significantly, in amounts equaling those of dependent smokers.
  • (5) Out of the 15 chippers examined, 5 presented vibration-induced white finger syndrome.
  • (6) Blood samples were obtained before and after 10 chippers (smoking up to 5 cigarettes per day) and 12 dependent smokers (20 to 40 cigarettes per day) smoked a cigarette.
  • (7) But I am a little taken aback by how chipper he is.
  • (8) In contrast to the deprivation and destitution that can result from sanctioning, the fictional Zac and Sarah, with their beatific expressions beaming out from leaflets, are eerily chipper.
  • (9) chippers 17 July 2013 9:26am This comment has been chosen by Guardian staff because it contributes to the debate As a teacher (and a parent) I find this incredibly depressing.
  • (10) However, the digital artery flow rates of the severe VWF group increased substantially (to about three times the resting level) after the chipping episode, whereas the flow rates of the novices and the non-VWF chippers did not change appreciably.
  • (11) Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire showed us chipper orphans in a development porn-esque version of India; much of the media westerners encounter of the global south is produced by white people, for white eyes, featuring white voices .
  • (12) Despite higher air lead concentrations, sanders' blood lead levels were not elevated compared with chippers and were only slightly elevated compared with non-lead workers.
  • (13) An associate at the meeting described him as seeming "quite low" and "not as ebulliant and chipper as usual".
  • (14) I think in some ways she represented his sanctuary.” She speaks in a chipper, chatty manner, much like Mrs Booth, but in tones crisper than the character’s soft burr.
  • (15) For 1,028 male workers (705 riveters, 284 chippers, and 39 grinders), the prevalence rate of the syndrome was 13.4% and for a reference group of 256 workers it was 1.6%.
  • (16) This finding, when coupled with other data about chippers' smoking patterns and nicotine absorption, establish that chippers cannot maintain substantial plasma nicotine levels between cigarettes, and thus suggest that attempts to maintain minimal trough levels of nicotine do not underlie chippers' smoking.
  • (17) Assays of cotinine (a long-lasting nicotine metabolite) also suggested that chippers' per-cigarette nicotine absorption equaled that of dependent smokers.
  • (18) He is also the only sound editor the Coen Brothers work with, which means that he is the person responsible for that gnarly wood chipper noise in Fargo, the peel of wallpaper in Barton Fink, the resonance of The Dude’s bowling ball in The Big Lebowski and the absolutely chilling crinkle of Javier Bardem’s gum wrapper in No Country for Old Men.
  • (19) There were puppies and cookies, and while it was cute and chipper, it was immediately forgettable.
  • (20) Indeed, when asked about Congress, Bernanke adopted the chipper tone of a wife who knows her husband will never pick up his socks and has just accepted the task.

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.