chippy

Definitions

Examples

• Early in the second quarter, Wagner had to hold Bryant back when the center tried to fight Blake Griffin following a chippy play.

• During the ensuing runback, tempers flared, and things got a little chippy.

• For all the glamour of some local residents, the town itself—known to locals as "Chippy" —  remains a handsome but modest place.

• David Remnick: He's a little chippy about her in the memoir.

• I say, you chaps, I'm sorry I made such an ass of myself yesterday; I felt chippy over that friend of mine being killed.

• We awoke with the sun, feeling—I speak for myself—rather touzled and chippy, and waited a long time for the orders to proceed.

• Both rooms were furnished, but cold and gloomy; the floor of what the girl called her dressing-room was chippy and worm-eaten.

• Fact is, Tweddle, I've been so doosid chippy for the last two days, I daren't touch a razor.

• And when Chippy Hackee got home, he found he had caught a cold in his head; and he was more uncomfortable still.