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Jesus was a carpenter.Originally posted by MPwannadecentincome View Postchippy is also slang for carpenter
Chico.
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thanks so I know where to advertise to get a chippy instead of paying £20 to £30 per hour out of yellow pagesOriginally posted by zeitghost
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chippy, n.
chippy, n.
1. U.S. (Also chippy bird, sparrow.) = chipping-bird (chipping ppl. a. 2).
1864 Webster, Chipping-bird+also chippy. 1898 S. Hale Lett. (1919) 338, I must tell you of our little chippy sparrows that had their nest in the trellis. 1900 Congress. Rec. 30 Apr. 4872/2 The ground chippy darted under the fences. 1913 G. S. Porter Laddie iii. 94 In the hollow of a rotten rail a little chippy bird always built a hair nest.
2. (Also chippie.) A young woman (usu. derogatory); a promiscuous or delinquent girl or young woman; a prostitute. Also attrib. slang (orig. U.S.).
1886 in Amer. Speech (1950) XXV. 31/2 This class of females are known by the gang as ‘Chippies’, and most of them come from the slums. 1929 T. Wolfe Look Homeward (1930) xii. 254 Your place is getting the reputation of a regular chippyhouse. Ibid. xix. 279 She's no better than a regular little chippie. 1938 Times Lit. Suppl. 25 June 438/1 Opal and other ‘chippies’ at Moll's ‘sporting-house’. 1955 ‘W. Mole’ Hammersmith Maggot ii. 26 He was no timidly frenzied lover of some exorbitant chippy.
Both out of your reach I'm afraid
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