fish-and-chippery

English

Noun

fish-and-chippery (plural fish-and-chipperies)

1. Alternative form of fish and chippery.
   • 1972, Thea Astley, The Acolyte, Angus and Robertson, →ISBN, page 142:

     […] Triton with candelabra ablaze stalking across the plastic-polish floor of fish-and-chipperies; […]

   • 1988, Al Alvarez, “Llanberis”, in Feeding the Rat: A Climber’s Life on the Edge, Bloomsbury, published 2003, →ISBN, page 13:

     There are two fish-and-chipperies, one Chinese take-away, and Pete’s Eats, a café with permanently steamed-up windows where they serve good bacon sandwiches and pint mugs of strong tea.

   • 2006, Joe Bennett, Mustn’t Grumble: An Accidental Return to England, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 215:

     The fish-and-chipperies, the souvenir shops and the penny arcades look forlorn and winter hopeless, two steps from abandonment.