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chippie

1 9.3

A small shop that sells fish and chips or a person who works as a carpenter

noun
/ˈtʃɪpi/

: local de fish and chips

The new chippie in town offers a variety of fresh seafood alongside the classic fried chips.

Examples

Couldn't even walk to the chippie.

Before It Had a Name (2005)
And was put to knocking down walls, though I was a chippie.

Academic text (2009)
And we've got chippies, which I was eating on the journey, and the Chicken Big Mac, a little bit crushed.
You may have heard that lots of your chippies to the fish and chips stores sell fried spiny dogfish.
After a long day of work, I decided to grab some fish and chips from the local chippie for dinner.
Every Friday, my family enjoys a takeout meal from our favorite chippie down the street.

Synonyms

chippy

vschippie

1 7.7

A shop that sells fried fish and chips

also means a carpenter in some regions rather than only the shop

cookshop

vschippie

Archaic

1 8.3

A small shop that sells hot meals to people

is more informal and specific to fish and chip shops or carpenters

cookshack

vschippie

Informal

6.9

A small roadside stall that sells grilled and smoked food

focuses on fried fish shops or carpenters rather than roadside grilled stalls

Surface Forms

chippie singular

chippies plural

Morphology

chippie = chip (transparent) = chip + ie

Formed by adding the colloquial diminutive/denominal suffix '-ie' to 'chip', yielding a familiar term for a place or person associated with chips.

Etymology

Chippie for a fish and chip shop or for a carpenter comes from the word chip, meaning the food 'chips' or small 'wood chips', plus the friendly ending -ie that makes words informal. So a chippie can be a shop that sells chips or a person who works with wood.