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▪ I. chipper, n.1|ˈtʃɪpə(r)|
[f. chip v.1 + -er1.]
1. a. gen. One who or that which chips. b. spec. † A knife used for ‘chipping’ bread (obs.).
1513Bk. Keruynge in Babees Bk. 266 One knyfe to square trenchoure loues, an other to be a chyppere. 1616R. C[rowley] Times' Whis. ii. 775 Some bread-chipper or greasy cooke. 1747Hooson Miner's Dict. E iij, Chippers, those that Dress the Round or Bing Ore. 1789Burns To Capt. Riddel, Our friends the reviewers, those chippers and hewers. 1873J. Richards Wood-working Factories 129 A ship caulker, a chipper, or a carpenter..hardly knows, how the blows of the mallet or hammer are directed to..the chisels or the nails. 1880Academy 15 May 366/1 No anthropoid ape at the present day..is a stone-chipper or a bone-cutter.
c. With advs.
1898[see stringer 1 b]. 1901Daily Chron. 4 Dec. 9/3 Pianoforte.—Fitters-up and chipper-up and tuner wanted. 1921Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §279 Chipper-in (rolling mill); a chipper q.v. chipping rough ends on rails with hammer and chisel. Ibid. §643 Chipper-up; carries out first stage of tuning strings of pianos when partly finished.
†2. Name of a bird. Obs.
1668Sir T. Browne Wks. (1882) III. 510 Two small birds: the bigger called a chipper, or betulæ carptor.
▪ II. chipper, n.2 dial. and U.S.|ˈtʃɪpə(r)|
[f. chipper v.]
Twitter, light chatter.
1865E. Burritt Walk to Land's End 314 A mirthful chipper and laugh under the song of the soaring larks. Ibid. 411 The twitter and chipper of birds.
▪ III. chipper, a. U.S.|ˈtʃɪpə(r)|
[App. the same word as northern Eng. kipper lively, nimble, frisky, and perh. orig. a southern or midl. Eng. form of it; but now known only in U.S., and probably associated with, and influenced by chipper v.]
Lively, brisk, cheerful; ‘chirpy’.
1837–40Haliburton Clockm. (1862) 236 There sot Katey..lookin' as bloomin' as a rose, and as chipper as a canary bird. 1849Thoreau Week Concord Riv. Tuesd. 234 The sparrows seem always chipper, never infirm. 1861Holland Less. Life i. 21 They are cheerful, and chipper, and sunshiny, and not easily moved to anger.
▪ IV. chipper, v. dial. and U.S.|ˈtʃɪpə(r)|
[Prob. partly a metathesis of chirrup; but also independently imitative of the sound indicated; the form being diminutive-frequentative, like twitter, chatter, totter, etc.]
1. intr. Of birds: To twitter, chirp; (of persons, or of streams) to babble, chatter.
18..Mary Stone in Schaff & Gilman Libr. Relig. Poetry (1885) 55 On my pine-tree bough The Chipperings are hushed. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Chipper, to chirp..a metathesis of that word or rather of chirrup. 1861Mrs. Stowe Pearl Orr's Isl. 22 Always chippering and chattering to each other, like a pair of antiquated house-sparrows. 1865E. Burritt Walk to Land's End 360 The sparkling stream that chippered among the ferns.
2. a. trans. To make ‘chipper’ or lively, to cheer up. U.S. [f. chipper a.]
1873Mrs. Whitney Other Girls xviii. (1876) 235 Setting to work to ‘chipper’ her mother up.
b. intr. To brighten up.
1886Harper's Mag. Sept. 583/1 She'd chipper up and fix up what she could. 1904G. H. Lorimer Old Gorgon Graham 129 ‘Young man, I've decided to help you out of this hole,’ he began. Percy chippered right up. |