Chippy Catters?

Subject: Chippy Catters?
From: Dave Wallace
Date: 19 Sep 05 - 12:11 PM

Any Catters coming to Chipping Norton Folk All Around (http://www.chippingnortonfolk.org.uk/

this Saturday? Singaround in the Fox pm - last year had Merek 'n Dary, Kitty, Les et al keeping us happy till the early hours.

Subject: RE: Chippy Catters?
From: M.Ted
Date: 19 Sep 05 - 01:49 PM

You may find that there is a certain prurient interest in your thread, Wedger, owning to the fact that this word apparently means something very different in the UK than in the US--

Subject: RE: Chippy Catters?
From: The Shambles
Date: 19 Sep 05 - 01:55 PM

What - the owners of a chip shop?

Why did we never heard this term used on Miami Vice?

Subject: RE: Chippy Catters?
From: Santa
Date: 20 Sep 05 - 10:42 AM

OK, M.Ted, now you've got us fascinated, what does it mean in the USA?

Subject: RE: Chippy Catters?
From: M.Ted
Date: 20 Sep 05 - 10:52 AM

From Online Etymology Dictionary

chippy-"promiscuous young woman; prostitute," 1880, U.S. slang, earlier (1864) short for chipping-bird "sparrow," perhaps ultimately a variant of cheep.


It probably was used on "Miami Vice", Shambles, though it was not their preferred word--I know that I recently heard it used on "Everybody Loves Raymond"--

Subject: RE: Chippy Catters?
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Sep 05 - 11:03 AM

....or from Merriam-Webster's online dictionary ..."aggressively belligerent" ....

Subject: RE: Chippy Catters?
From: Snuffy
Date: 20 Sep 05 - 01:18 PM

In UK it could be either a chipshop or a carpenter.

If I were a chippy, and you were a lady ...

Subject: RE: Chippy Catters?
From: M.Ted
Date: 20 Sep 05 - 01:32 PM

As far as we go, there is no other meaning for the word, as least when it is a noun--hence, our amusement at such as this:

Building magazine
1 December 2000

Holiday dilemmas

A self-employed chippy put in a claim to a builder for £1430 holiday pay under the Working Time Regulations. He didn't win, but in not very different circumstances he might well have done.

I wonder who put Paul Costello up to this wheeze. He is a chippy. He used to work for a George Wimpey subsidiary called Midland & General Developments. I say "used to" because I bet he is not one of its favourite tradesmen right now. He took the firm to the employment tribunal claiming £1430 holiday pay after working 32 weeks as a self-employed joiner, or so Midland said.


In our sense of the meaning, a chippy would also be a "self-employed joiner"--though not generally a man--

Subject: RE: Chippy Catters?
From: GUEST,Fullerton
Date: 20 Sep 05 - 03:05 PM

This thread has brought a whole new meaning to my understanding of the phrase "the Germans bombed our chippy."

Subject: RE: Chippy Catters?
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Sep 05 - 03:52 PM

...as used in the title of the thread, it is an adjective...hence a "chippy catter" would, according to Merriam-Webster's, be an agressively belligerent 'catter ...

Subject: RE: Chippy Catters?
From: katlaughing
Date: 20 Sep 05 - 05:01 PM

and so would a "chipper" be the one doing the "chipping" or just be a really upbeat person...:-)

Subject: RE: Chippy Catters?
From: Santa
Date: 20 Sep 05 - 06:40 PM

Or a new meaning to "I'm the man who put the engine in the chip shop"

Subject: RE: Chippy Catters?
From: The Shambles
Date: 23 Sep 05 - 03:23 PM

refresh

Subject: RE: Chippy Catters?
From: Chip2447
Date: 23 Sep 05 - 11:45 PM

chip, chipper, chippy, chipster, chump, champ, chimp...

I've heard em all...

Chip2447(No, Chip isn't my given name, but it might as well be. I'm more likely to answer to Chip than I am to my "REAL" name)