Chippy

"Chippy"

The slang term chippy, also spelled chippie, means a "promiscous young woman"or a prositute. The dictionary meaning for the French word chipie is shrewish woman or vixen. Chipe and pie in French means thieving magpie.

In the nineteeth century, New Orleans recognized the word chippy. Louis Armstrong used the word chippy often and he also used it in his 1954 autobiography.

In the dictionary of American Slang, the word chippy is a shortened way of saying chippy sparrow, a bird that is found in urban areas. Women were referred to as chick, hen, or hen or bird. In America, it means the sounds that a squirrel or some other small animal makes.


I got the information from the book DOG DAYS and DANDELIONS

Author: MARTHA BARNETTE