Fish-and-chippy
adj, noun, slang
adj, noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A shop that sells fish and chips. informal
"There is still no fishmonger, although there is a fish-and-chippy."
Adjective
- 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 a decimal under 91 m.p.h. from the four-cylinder Maseratis of Bianco and Sofietti."
Example
More examples"There is still no fishmonger, although there is a fish-and-chippy."
Etymology
From fish and chip + -y.
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