(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.
Choppy
Definition:
(a.) Full of cracks.
(a.) Rough, with short, tumultuous waves; as, a choppy sea.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Of course this recovery which is starting is likely to be choppy and uneven.
(2) It all amounts to increasing uncertainty at Leeds, the latest squall on their voyage through choppy waters.
(3) He directed the paper through choppy waters in its relationship with the Bush administration, earning the then president's wrath with a steady stream of scoops on the US government's use of phone tapping and torture.
(4) "This report shows that the recovery will be choppy for economies around the world but confirms, like other independent forecasters including the IMF and Office for Budget Responsibility , that the UK will continue to grow steadily in the years ahead," he added.
(5) "Look, there will be choppy waters and there will be Liberal Democrats who are nervous about the figures coming out," a source close to Nick Clegg told the Observer .
(6) Poland was never expected to unseat Tusk, but the row threatens to fracture the unity European leaders are seeking in time for the EU’s 60th birthday celebrations at the end of the month and before entering the choppy waters of Brexit talks.
(7) And, as we make our way along this choppy recovery, how can we better shield bill payers from price shocks in oil and gas?
(8) To produce this fine mist of sea spray artificially, Salter envisages thousands of unmanned yachts zigzagging across the sea, carrying equipment to make very choppy waves, known as Faraday waves.
(9) But yes, it will be a choppy period that we'll go through."
(10) But if you are in choppy waters you don't change the captain."
(11) ‘owl-light’ (Lancashire) fizmer the whispering sound of wind in reeds or grass (Fenland) grimlins the night hours around midsummer when dusk blends into dawn (Orkney) The word-hoard: Robert Macfarlane on rewilding our language of landscape Read more gruffy ground the surface landscape left behind by lead-mining (Somerset) grumma a mirage caused by mist or haze (Shetland) hob-gob a dangerously choppy sea (Suffolk) muxy of land; sticky, miry, muddy (Exmoor) outshifts the fringes and boundaries of a town (Cambridgeshire) roarie-bummlers fast-moving storm clouds (Scots) snow-bones long thin patches of snow still lying after a thaw, often in dips or stream-cuts (Yorkshire) turn-whol a deep and seething pool where two quick streams meet (Cumbria) zwer the whirring sound made by a covey of partridge taking flight (Exmoor)
(12) We are headed into very, very choppy waters.” Russia and Trump: the chronicle of a scandal Read more “The pressure brought to bear on Comey could well amount to obstruction of justice depending on the intent and motive,” said Senator Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat from Connecticut.
(13) The choppy waters crash into the concrete wall creating a dramatic backdrop.
(14) While a double-dip recession remains unlikely, the survey suggests that the risk has increased and that growth looks set to be slow and choppy going forward."
(15) It was clear from the beginning, however, that writing was one of the few constants in her choppy existence.
(16) On financial markets, investors are gearing up for choppy trading between now and the 23 June vote.
(17) But we’re also very clear that there’s much much more that we want and can do to improve the business yet further.” Supermarkets including Tesco are braced for a choppy year ahead, as the sharp fall in the value of the pound since the Brexit vote pushes up the price of imported foods and ingredients.
(18) Hence the Godard-influenced vignette-style layering of authentic photos that place the film's events firmly into their historical context, a choppy narrative timeline and, rather more surreally, a talking dog.
(19) On currency markets the euro had a choppy day although oil prices rose amid some signs of an improvement in the US economy .
(20) Her wealth and breadth of experience will be critical in steering the CBI through choppy political and economic waters, including an EU referendum.” Fairbairn began her career as an economist at the World Bank and then worked as a journalist at the Economist and as a management consultant at McKinsey & Co. She was also a Downing Street policy adviser from 1995-97 when John Major was prime minister and ITV’s director of strategy between 2007 and 2010.