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Previously on "I want to become a chippy"

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  • RichardCranium
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    Originally posted by gingerjedi View Post
    Jesus was a carpenter.
    Well, he can't have been Karen so was he the one that played the piano?

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  • Clippy
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    Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
    Cod knows where to begin?
    Here.
    (Apparently, the number of enquiries has shot up since the recession).

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  • gingerjedi
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    Originally posted by MPwannadecentincome View Post
    chippy is also slang for carpenter
    Jesus was a carpenter.

    Chico.

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  • MPwannadecentincome
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    Originally posted by zeitghost
    Alternatively, but not so toothsome,

    http://www.workgateways.com/Trades+a...er~Chippy.Jobs
    thanks so I know where to advertise to get a chippy instead of paying £20 to £30 per hour out of yellow pages

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  • MPwannadecentincome
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    chippy is also slang for carpenter

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  • thunderlizard
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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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  • DimPrawn
    started a topic I want to become a chippy

    I want to become a chippy

    Cod knows where to begin?

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