(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.
Prostitute
Definition:
(v. t.) To offer, as a woman, to a lewd use; to give up to lewdness for hire.
(v. t.) To devote to base or unworthy purposes; to give up to low or indiscriminate use; as, to prostitute talents; to prostitute official powers.
(a.) Openly given up to lewdness; devoted to base or infamous purposes.
(n.) A woman giver to indiscriminate lewdness; a strumpet; a harlot.
(n.) A base hireling; a mercenary; one who offers himself to infamous employments for hire.
Example Sentences:
(1) She has been accused of being responsible for rape, sexual slavery, and prostitution itself.
(2) Prostitute visit is a main risk factor, irrespective of whether the husband had a history of sexually transmitted diseases or not.
(3) It focuses on the major areas of concern: HIV prevalence among drug injectors; sexual risk behaviour; the potential for heterosexual transmission; condom use; sexual risk and women; pregnancy; male homosexual activity and drug use; the effect of drugs on sexual behaviour and prostitution.
(4) Under Lynch, the eastern district is currently prosecuting at least five cases relating to the prostitution of US minors or sex trafficking – more active prosecutions than any other US attorney’s office in the country, according to knowledgeable observers.
(5) Seroprevalence in diverse Thai groups included 6% of men with sexually transmitted diseases, 15% of prostitutes, and 6% of army recruits.
(6) These results show that in Nairobi prostitutes are a readily identifiable group of high-frequency transmitters of gonococcal infection.
(7) Compared to cases in the previous year, infectious syphilis cases among prostitutes and seasonal farm workers decreased 51.3 per cent and 26.8 per cent, respectively.
(8) "Women who are forced to become prostitutes via trafficking are examples of modern-day slavery."
(9) The city, which only allows prostitution in certain areas, also plans to spend SFr700,000 a year to keep the sex boxes running.
(10) Window prostitutes are at higher risk than club prostitutes.
(11) Quite a lot of the downtown action in The Catcher in the Rye (a night out in a fancy hotel; a date with an old girlfriend; an encounter with a prostitute, and a mugging by her pimp) might almost as well describe a young soldier’s nightmare experience of R&R.
(12) Two seropositive prostitutes had IgM hepatitis B core antibody suggesting recent infection.
(13) Serological results were correlated with history of intravenous drug addiction, alcohol abuse, homosexuality or prostitution (high-risk groups), and duration and number of internments.
(14) Other media reports defined that as a place used for “lewdness, assignation or prostitution.” Norfolk police had arrested Ball and another Richmond man the night before Thanksgiving when they were found together in a parked car in a local park.
(15) He did so, the judges asserted, because he was facing related charges in another case involving accusations that he paid for sex with an underage prostitute who was also a "bunga bunga" guest.
(16) The difference in the incidence of ASA between controls (5%) and the prostitutes (43.1%) was highly significant (p less than 0.01).
(17) The increasing number of HIV infected patients in the Netherlands living outside of Amsterdam, would appear to urge more education of psychiatric and other health care professionals concerning specific aspects of HIV infection, homosexuality, prostitution and intravenous drug abuse.
(18) The teak-coloured wooden garages will be open for business from Monday for drive-in customers in a country where prostitution has been legal since 1942 on the outskirts of the Swiss city.
(19) The article first reviews the epidemiology of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection among prostitutes.
(20) These prostitutes represented a reservoir for STDs including HIV.