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fish-and-chippy

fish-and-chippy noun: a shop that sells fish and chips.

Noun

fish-and-chippy (plural fish-and-chippies)

  1. (informal) A shop that sells fish and chips.
    • There is still no fishmonger, although there is a fish-and-chippy.1993, Giles Gordon, Aren’t We Due a Royalty Statement? A Stern Account of Literary, Publishing, and Theatrical Folk, Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, page 342
    • The trattoria was becoming popular and was edging out the ‘greasy spoon’ and even the fish-and-chippy.1997, Nigel Grant, “Intercultural education in the United Kingdom”, in Derek Woodrow, Gajendra K. Verma, Maria Beatriz Rocha-Trindade, Giovanna Campani, Christopher Bagley, editors, Intercultural...

Adjective

fish-and-chippy (comparative more fish-and-chippy, superlative most fish-and-chippy)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of fish and chips.
    • Spouting hot oil, and with the fish-and-chippy odour characteristic of internal combustion when it goes external with a bang, the blue E.R.A. drew over and nuzzled in close to the hedge, yielding precedence to the works three-speeder, which thereafter had the race in the basket, going on to win at...1944, Autocar, volume 89, page 266
    • Everything’s so stale and orange-peely and fish-and-chippy!1946, Dorothy Macardle, Fantastic Summer, London: Peter Davies, page 37

Examples of fish-and-chippy in a sentence

  • In 1993–94, I lived in the picturesque southern English town of Canterbury, Kent, in a very small apartment above a health-food shop and a “fish-and-chippy.”1999, Eve Darian-Smith, “Preface”, in Bridging Divides: The Channel Tunnel and English Legal Identity in the New Europe, Berkeley, Calif....
  • Unless you fancy opening a fish-and-chippy in Ulladulla?’ Jim offers.2016, J.D. Barrett, The Secret Recipe for Second Chances, Hachette Australia, →ISBN:
  • […] 25 minutes went by before the cruelly overheated engine was clearly visible through the fish-and-chippy miasma rising off it.1958, Sports Cars Illustrated, volume 4, page 45:
  • As he packed, the hearty fish-and-chippy smell of Swansea was coming on the evening wind over the sea, and the sound of the Mumbles train loudening coming back to the Pierhead.1970, John Summers, Dylan, New English Library, →ISBN, page 26:

Synonyms of fish-and-chippy

Forms of fish-and-chippy

Noun
pluralfish-and-chippies
alternative formfish and chippy
alternative formfish and chippie
Adjective
comparativemore fish-and-chippy
superlativemost fish-and-chippy

Origin of fish-and-chippy

From fish and chip + -y.

Questions about fish-and-chippy

What does fish-and-chippy mean?
Fish-and-chippy means a shop that sells fish and chips.
How do you use fish-and-chippy in a sentence?
In 1993–94, I lived in the picturesque southern English town of Canterbury, Kent, in a very small apartment above a health-food shop and a “fish-and-chippy.”
What part of speech is fish-and-chippy?
Fish-and-chippy can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of fish-and-chippy?
The plural of fish-and-chippy is fish-and-chippies.

Words near fish-and-chippy in the dictionary

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

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