Chipping
/ˈt͡ʃɪpɪŋ/ name, noun, verb
name, noun, verb ·Uncommon ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A fragment broken off a larger object. countable
- 2 the act of chipping something wordnet
- 3 The act of creating or producing chips, as by breaking something into small fragments, cutting potatoes, removing fragments from pottery, etc. uncountable
Verb
- 1 present participle and gerund of chip form-of, gerund, participle, present
Proper Noun
- 1 A hamlet in Buckland parish, East Hertfordshire district, Hertfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL3532).
- 2 A village and civil parish in Ribble Valley district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD6243).
- 3 Obsolete form of Chepping Wycombe. alt-of, obsolete
"CHIPPING, or Much-Wiccomb, a borough-town of Buckinghamſhire, about ten miles ſouth of Aileſbury..."
Example
More examples"He alters the altar while chipping away the stone."
Etymology
Etymology 1
From chip + -ing.
Etymology 2
From Middle English chippyng, chippynge, equivalent to chip + -ing.
Etymology 3
From Old English ċīeping (“market, marketplace”). Compare Swedish köping ("market"). Chipping, Cheapside, and cheap all reflect ancestry from Old English ceapian, concerning trading in markets.