chippy

A carpenter.

Then, when ah wis apprenticed as a chippy wi a Gorgie builder, ah goes along tae Telford College tae dae ma national certificate modules in joinery.

A prostitute or promiscuous woman.

I manage to pick up a living in spite of the damn chippies. I don't see why the hell they don't go into the business regular and make something out of it, instead of loving free.

Don't worry chippy, nobodys gonna hurtya. Maybe fuckya a little[…]

A fish-and-chip shop.

Huge queues form outside the Chippy, often stretching back to the Coop and beyond.

Albert was flabbergasted. Yer really buyin′ a chippy?” Tom smiled whilst nodding his head. “That′s me plan.”

The youngest member of a team or group, normally someone whose voice has not yet deepened, talking like a chipmunk.

A potato chip.

Ill-tempered, disagreeable.

To sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, / In a pestilential prison, with a life-long lock, / Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock, / From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block!

There was something so irksome about Barry Groom that he had a fascination: you longed for him to annoy you again. He was incredibly chippy, was that the thing?—all his longings came out as a kind of disdain for what he longed for.

Involving violence or unfair play.

2007, Canadian Interuniversity Sport, cisport.ca, The University of Lethbridge Pronghorns and University of Saskatchewan Huskies battled to a 1-1 draw in a chippy Canada West men’s soccer affair that saw the teams combine for 33 fouls and five yellow cards.

Tending to form chips when cut, rather than larger, more usable pieces of wood.

As dry as a chip of wood.

Feeling sick from drinking alcohol; hungover.

To take drugs (especially heroin) on an occasional basis, rather than as an addict.

I chippy around but haven't been hooked in a year now.

The heroin user in the United States typically "chippies" for some time before becoming a regular user.