1. Of, or composed of, chips.
1729. Savage, Wanderer, I. 17 (R.).
| Here my chill’d Veins are warm’d by chippy Fires, | |
| Thro’ the bor’d Rock above, the Smoke expires. |
2. Full of chaps; chapped.
1853. Kane, Grinnell Exp., xxxiv. (1854), 301. Eyes, nose, and mouth chippy with lampblack and undue evaporation.
3. Resembling a chip; as dry as a chip.
1866. Sat. Rev., 31 March, 375. A few … have passed a dry, chippy, verseless youth.
1883. E. Pennell-Elmhirst, Cream Leicestersh., 386. Chippy and parched.
b. Vulgarly applied to the physical sensations experienced after alcoholic dissipation.
4. colloq. Given to chipping, ready to chip. (fig.)
1887. [Catherine Barter], Poor Nellie II. ix. 194. She won’t then be quite so chippy on her chipping-block.
