Adjective
My, you're looking chipper this morning.
She greeted me in a chipper voice.
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Noun
And yet, Parkinson carefully takes viewers through the chipper aplomb with which these men approach their profession.—David Sims, The Atlantic, 3 Mar. 2025 Nate leaps into action-hero mode, and the film’s mayhem blowouts include a multi-weapon melee in a restaurant kitchen, leaving our gangly hero horribly burned but quite chipper about it, since his adversary is less fortunate.—Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 12 Mar. 2025
Adjective
Wasn’t the entire point of season two making both the audience and Ted realize all the ways in which his ultra-chipper attitude and impenetrable optimism were a mask for decades of repressed sadness?—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Mar. 2023 The super-chipper T.A. who serves as her driver and cheerleader (Rammel Chan) deposits Kate at a B&B whose snarling proprietor (Cindy Gold) seems to have chosen the wrong line of business.—Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Aug. 2020 See All Example Sentences for chipper
Word History
Etymology
Adjective
perhaps alteration of English dialect kipper lively
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