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Examples
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Besides, with a surgically enhanced, chippered brain, I might very well become deadly dull at cocktail parties.
FREAK-TV: Care for a Brain Chip? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007
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I could see that he was a-most gone when I got there; but he chippered up a little for a minute as I shook hands with him and ast him how he was.
The Aztec Treasure-House Thomas Allibone Janvier
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"I've been kind of low-spirited, and, thinks I, if there is a place where I could get chippered up it's down to the poor-house, where it's always so lively and sociable; and if Mis 'Bemis ain't a-goin' to send for me I'll jest go over and find out the reason why."
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From an oak that shaded the porch a squirrel chippered at them.
Darkness and Dawn George Allan England 1906
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There, still more bats bung and chippered in protest as the intruders passed.
Darkness and Dawn George Allan England 1906
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The king and the duke turned out by and by looking pretty rusty; but after they'd jumped overboard and took a swim it chippered them up a good deal.
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He looked more and more like a well-to-do old English sparrow, and chippered faster and faster.
Deephaven and Selected Stories & Sketches Sarah Orne Jewett 1879
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From the point of view of modern English criticism, which likes to be melted, and horrified, and astonished, and blood-curdled, and goose - fleshed, no less than to be "chippered up" in fiction, Senor Valdes were indeed incorrigible.
Literature and Life (Complete) William Dean Howells 1878
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From the point of view of modern English criticism, which likes to be melted, and horrified, and astonished, and blood-curdled, and goose - fleshed, no less than to be "chippered up" in fiction, Senor Valdes were indeed incorrigible.
Criticism and Fiction William Dean Howells 1878
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The king and the duke turned out by and by looking pretty rusty; but after they'd jumped overboard and took a swim it chippered them up a good deal.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 21 to 25 Mark Twain 1872
mollusque commented on the word chippered
He looked more and more like a well-to-do old English sparrow, and chippered faster and faster.
--Sarah Orne Jewett, 1877, Deephaven
January 28, 2010