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chippering

chippering is the present participle and gerund of chipper.

Meaning of chipper

Verb

chipper (third-person singular simple present chippers, present participle chippering, simple past and past participle chippered)

  1. (UK, dialectal) To chirp or chirrup.
    • [a squirrel] […] eyeing me inquisitively, chippering, and shaking his tail1884, Clinton Hart Merriam, The Mammals of the Adirondack Region, Northeastern New York

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Phrases with chippering

Questions about chippering

What is chippering the present participle and gerund of?
Chippering is the present participle and gerund of chipper.

Words near chippering in the dictionary

  1. chippered up
  2. chipperer
  3. chipperest
  4. Chipperfield
  5. chipperies
  6. chippering
  7. chippering up
  8. chipperly
  9. chipperness
  10. chippers
  11. chippers up

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chippering (page history and authors); chipper (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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