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Definition of Chippies
1. chippie [n] - See also: chippie
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chippies
Literary usage of Chippies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bird-life: A Guide to the Study of Our Common Birds by Frank Michler Chapman (1901)
"Then, too, the true chippies all leave for the South in November, while the Winter
chippies come in October and remain until April. ..."
2. The Californians by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (1908)
"They 're chippies," said Helena, wisely. "What's chippies?" " Girls that live
south of Market Street. They work all day and promenade with their beaux all ..."
3. The Journal of a Disappointed Man by W. N. P. Barbellion, Herbert George Wells (1919)
"chippies I was surprised to discover the other day that when I talked of chippies
no one understood what I meant! It proves to be a dialect word familiar to ..."
4. Handbook of Nature-study for Teachers and Parents, Based on the Cornell by Anna Botsford Comstock (1911)
"If you have the luck to find a pair of chippies nesting, keep a diary of your
observations in ... How do young chippies act when they first leave the nest ? ..."
5. Western Birds by Harriet Williams Myers (1922)
"The common call of these birds is a thin chip which has caused them to be known
by the small boys as chippies or Brown chippies. Their friendly, Robin-like ..."
6. The Birds about Us by Charles Conrad Abbott (1894)
"The eggs varied so as to clutches, that in the common mind it was held that there
were "bush chippies" and " ground chippies," for, curiously enough, ..."
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