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First published 1941 (SND Vol. II). Includes material from the 2005 supplement.
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CHIPPIT, adj.

1. “Damaged (esp. of fruit)” (Edb.⁵ 1940). Cf. Chip, n.Sc. 1999 Edinburgh Evening News 22 May 8:
In the 1860s and 1870s this old well was the favourite rendezvous of the Canongate hawkers, who turned this part of the Royal Mile "into a veritable inferno with their flaring paraffin lamps and raucous voices," as they stood by their well-laden barrows and baskets proclaiming the price of "chippit apples, Irish dulse, bluidy puddings and cheena bowls!" Sc. 2001 Scotsman 5 Jun 12:
... when she's away looking for bargains in stale rolls or chippit fruit.Slg. 1990 Janet Paisley in Hamish Whyte and Janice Galloway New Writing Scotland 8: The Day I Met the Queen Mother 119:
It wis aw sortit, wisn't it. Nae mair sortit thin a chippit egg.Edb. 1992:
Until ca.1975 chippit fruit was labelled as such in Rankins' fruit shops. Edb. 1993:
My father always brought a big bag of fruit home on Friday nights and woe betide any of us if we were caught eating chippit fruit.

2. Tipsy (Bnff.², Abd.², Abd.⁹ 1940). Cf. slang Eng. chippy, unwell, seedy, usually of over-indulgence in eating, drinking, etc. (Farmer and Henley).Abd.(D) 1929 J. Alexander Mains and Hilly 206:
Some o' them likeit a gweed dram an' thocht nae ull o' bein' a wee bit chippit.