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19 Sep 05 - 12:11 PM (#1566697) Subject: Chippy Catters? From: Dave Wallace 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. |
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19 Sep 05 - 01:49 PM (#1566762) Subject: RE: Chippy Catters? From: M.Ted 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-- |
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19 Sep 05 - 01:55 PM (#1566766) Subject: RE: Chippy Catters? From: The Shambles What - the owners of a chip shop? Why did we never heard this term used on Miami Vice? |
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20 Sep 05 - 10:42 AM (#1566805) Subject: RE: Chippy Catters? From: Santa OK, M.Ted, now you've got us fascinated, what does it mean in the USA? |
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20 Sep 05 - 10:52 AM (#1566811) Subject: RE: Chippy Catters? From: M.Ted 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"-- |
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20 Sep 05 - 11:03 AM (#1566820) Subject: RE: Chippy Catters? From: GUEST ....or from Merriam-Webster's online dictionary ..."aggressively belligerent" .... |
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20 Sep 05 - 01:18 PM (#1566945) Subject: RE: Chippy Catters? From: Snuffy In UK it could be either a chipshop or a carpenter. If I were a chippy, and you were a lady ... |
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20 Sep 05 - 01:32 PM (#1566959) Subject: RE: Chippy Catters? From: M.Ted 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-- |
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20 Sep 05 - 03:05 PM (#1567026) Subject: RE: Chippy Catters? From: GUEST,Fullerton This thread has brought a whole new meaning to my understanding of the phrase "the Germans bombed our chippy." |
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20 Sep 05 - 03:52 PM (#1567062) Subject: RE: Chippy Catters? From: GUEST ...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 ... |
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20 Sep 05 - 05:01 PM (#1567103) Subject: RE: Chippy Catters? From: katlaughing and so would a "chipper" be the one doing the "chipping" or just be a really upbeat person...:-) |
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20 Sep 05 - 06:40 PM (#1567169) Subject: RE: Chippy Catters? From: Santa Or a new meaning to "I'm the man who put the engine in the chip shop" |
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23 Sep 05 - 03:23 PM (#1569421) Subject: RE: Chippy Catters? From: The Shambles refresh |
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23 Sep 05 - 11:45 PM (#1569657) Subject: RE: Chippy Catters? From: Chip2447 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) |