fish-and-chippy

See also: fish and chippy

English

Alternative forms

• fish and chippy
• (noun): fish and chippie

Etymology

From fish-and-chip +‎ -y.

Noun

fish-and-chippy (plural fish-and-chippies)

1. (informal) A shop that sells fish and chips.

   Synonyms: chipper, chippy, chip shop, fish-and-chipper, fish and chippery

   • 1993, Giles Gordon, Aren’t We Due a Royalty Statement? A Stern Account of Literary, Publishing, and Theatrical Folk, Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, page 342:

     There is still no fishmonger, although there is a fish-and-chippy.

   • 1997, Nigel Grant, “Intercultural education in the United Kingdom”, in Derek Woodrow, Gajendra K. Verma, Maria Beatriz Rocha-Trindade, Giovanna Campani, Christopher Bagley, editors, Intercultural Education: Theories, Policies and Practices, Ashgate Publishing, →ISBN, page 140:

     The trattoria was becoming popular and was edging out the ‘greasy spoon’ and even the fish-and-chippy.

   • 1999, Eve Darian-Smith, “Preface”, in Bridging Divides: The Channel Tunnel and English Legal Identity in the New Europe, Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, →ISBN, page xv:

     In 1993–94, I lived in the picturesque southern English town of Canterbury, Kent, in a very small apartment above a health-food shop and a “fish-and-chippy.”

   • 2016, J.D. Barrett, The Secret Recipe for Second Chances, Hachette Australia, →ISBN:

     ‘That will happen wherever I go, because most of the chefs around here couldn’t tell the difference between a brûlée and a blowfly.’ / ‘But you won’t be working anywhere else. You’ll be on garden leave. Unless you fancy opening a fish-and-chippy in Ulladulla?’ Jim offers.

Adjective

fish-and-chippy (comparative more fish-and-chippy, superlative most fish-and-chippy)

1. Resembling or characteristic of fish and chips.
   • 1944, Autocar, volume 89, page 266:

     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.

   • 1946, Dorothy Macardle, Fantastic Summer, London: Peter Davies, page 37:

     Everything’s so stale and orange-peely and fish-and-chippy!

   • 1958, Sports Cars Illustrated, volume 4, page 45:

     […] 25 minutes went by before the cruelly overheated engine was clearly visible through the fish-and-chippy miasma rising off it.

   • 1970, John Summers, Dylan, New English Library, →ISBN, page 26:

     As he packed, the hearty fish-and-chippy smell of Swansea was coming on the evening wind over the sea, and the sound of the Mumbles train loudening coming back to the Pierhead.

   • 2019, Arthur Slade, Amber Fang: Betrayal, Orca Book Publishers, →ISBN:

     I was sure the Brits had their share of murderers. It was just a matter of finding the right one. Or, if I was lucky, one that tasted good. Without the fish-and-chippy smell. Sorry, that was a stereotype.

   • 2021, Charlie Higson, Worst. Holiday. Ever., Puffin Books, →ISBN:

     I quickly tuck in to some chips, then try a crispy ring. It’s good. It’s very good. Sort of half chickeny and half fish-and-chippy.