Lexicographical Neighbors of Chippered
Literary usage of Chippered
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn by Elizabeth Bisland, Lafcadio Hearn (1906)
"Then I caught it in my hat; and it revealed its plain nature by burying its teeth
in my finger; and it would not let go,— and it squeaked and chippered like ..."
2. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1838)
"But the wild-squirrel shunned the dark abodes Where the green hickory, in some
pleasant place, In the old trunks, and chippered far away, The blast went on ..."
3. The Aztec Treasure-house: A Romance of Contemporaneous Antiquity by Thomas Allibone Janvier (1899)
"He was a-layin' in his bed, an' I could see that he was a-most gone when I got
there; but he chippered up a little for a minute as I shook hands with him ..."
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