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fish-and-chippery

fish-and-chippery is the alternative form of fish and chippery.

Meaning of fish and chippery

Noun

fish and chippery (plural fish and chipperies)

  1. (informal) A chip shop.
    • Derek smiled at her and said, 'That would have shut him up a bit. He thought that he was in a fish and chippery and there he was in an export factory.'2014, Dennis J. McTaggart, Cold Gold II, page 112

Forms of fish-and-chippery

pluralfish-and-chipperies

Questions about fish-and-chippery

What is fish-and-chippery the alternative form of?
Fish-and-chippery is the alternative form of fish and chippery.

Words near fish-and-chippery in the dictionary

  1. fish'd
  2. fish-and-chip
  3. fish-and-chipper
  4. fish-and-chipperies
  5. fish-and-chippers
  6. fish-and-chippery
  7. fish-and-chippies
  8. fish-and-chippy
  9. fish-and-chips
  10. fish-ball
  11. fish-balls

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