brother chip
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Compare chips (“a carpenter”).
Noun
[edit]- (UK, slang, archaic) Term of address for a fellow tradesman, originally a carpenter.
- 1853, Talbot Gwynne, The School for Dreamers: A Story of the Present Day, page 208:
- He was saluted by Mr. James Hall, with these words: “Well, brother chip! How many murders have you been committing?”
References
[edit]- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary