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chip·per1    Audio Help   [chip-er] Pronunciation Key
–adjective
marked by or being in sprightly good humor and health.

[Origin: 1830–40; of uncert. orig.]

jaunty, peppy, pert.
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chip·per2    Audio Help   [chip-er] Pronunciation Key
–verb (used without object)
1.to chirp or twitter.
2.to chatter or babble.

[Origin: 1705–15; chip2 + -er6]
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chip·per3    Audio Help   [chip-er] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.a person or thing that chips or cuts.
2.a machine that grinds up logs, tree trunks, discarded Christmas trees, etc., into wood chips.
3.Slang. a person who uses narcotic drugs only occasionally or in small doses.

[Origin: 1505–15; chip1 + -er1]
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chip·per 1    Audio Help   (chĭp'ər)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   One that chips or cuts: a wood chipper.

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chip·per 2    Audio Help   (chĭp'ər)  Pronunciation Key 
intr.v.   chip·pered, chip·per·ing, chip·pers
  1. To chirp or twitter, as a bird.
  2. To babble.


[Frequentative of chip2.]

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chip·per 3    Audio Help   (chĭp'ər)  Pronunciation Key 
adj.   In lively spirits; cheerful.


[Possibly alteration of British dialectal kipper, lively.]

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chipper 
1837, "lively, nimble," Amer.Eng., from northern British dial. kipper "nimble, frisky," origin obscure.

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chipper

adjective
having a cheerful, lively, and self-confident air; "looking chipper, like a man...diverted by his own wit"- Frances G. Patton; "life that is gay, brisk, and debonair"- H.M.Reynolds; "walked with a jaunty step"; "a jaunty optimist" 

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chipper [ˈtʃipə(r)] adjective
cheerful and lively
Example: You seem very chipper today.
Arabic: مُبْتَهٍج، مَرِح، حَيَوي
Chinese (Simplified): 活泼的
Chinese (Traditional): 活潑的
Czech: veselý, čilý
Danish: munter; frisk
Estonian: reibas
French: en pleine forme
Greek: ευδιάθετος και ζωηρός
Hungarian: élénk, virgonc
Indonesian: girang
Italian: su di giri*, allegro
Korean: 명랑한, 생기 발랄한
Latvian: mundrs; možs
Lithuanian: linksmas, gyvas
Norwegian: kvikk, munter, livlig
Polish: rześki
Portuguese (Brazil): animado
Russian: бодрый
Slovak: čulý, čiperný
Slovenian: živahen
Spanish: en plena forma
Swedish: glad, pigg
Turkish: şen, neşeli
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Chipper

Chip"per\, v. i. [Cf. Cheep, Chirp.] To chirp or chirrup. [Prov. Eng.] --Forby.

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Chipper

Chip"per\, a. Lively; cheerful; talkative. [U. S.]

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chipper

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