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fish-and-chippy
noun 1adj 1
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4ADJ.
orange-peely, visible
VERB + FISH-AND-CHIPPY
shop
FISH-AND-CHIPPY + NOUN
characteristic, miasma, odour
PREP.
off, through, with
Definitions
noun
1
A shop that sells fish and chips.
There is still no fishmonger, although there is a fish-and-chippy.
The trattoria was becoming popular and was edging out the ‘greasy spoon’ and even the fish-and-chippy.
adj
1
Resembling or characteristic of fish and chips.
Spouting hot oil, and with the fish-and-chippy odour characteristic of internal combustion when it goes external with a bang, the blue E.R.A. drew over and nuzzled in close to the hedge, yielding precedence to the works three-speeder, which thereafter had the race in the basket, going on to win at a decimal under 91 m.p.h. from the four-cylinder Maseratis of Bianco and Sofietti.
Everything’s so stale and orange-peely and fish-and-chippy!
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There is still no fishmonger, although there is a fish-and-chippy.
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The trattoria was becoming popular and was edging out the ‘greasy spoon’ and even the fish-and-chippy.
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In 1993–94, I lived in the picturesque southern English town of Canterbury, Kent, in a very small apartment above a health-food shop and a “fish-and-chippy.”
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Spouting hot oil, and with the fish-and-chippy odour characteristic of internal combustion when it goes external with a bang, the blue E.R.A. drew over and nuzzled in close to the hedge, yielding prec
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Everything’s so stale and orange-peely and fish-and-chippy!
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[…] 25 minutes went by before the cruelly overheated engine was clearly visible through the fish-and-chippy miasma rising off it.
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