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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: having a cheerful, lively, and self-confident air; "looking chipper, like a man...diverted by his own wit"- Frances G. Patton; "life that is gay, brisk, and debonair"- H.M.Reynolds; "walked with a jaunty step"; "a jaunty optimist" [syn: chipper, debonair, debonaire, jaunty]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Date: 1513 one that chips <a wood chipper> II. adjective Etymology: perhaps alteration of English dialect kipper lively Date: 1822 sprightly 1

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. esp. US colloq. 1 cheerful. 2 smartly dressed. Etymology: perh. f. N.Engl. dial. kipper lively

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Chipper Chip"per, v. i. [Cf. Cheep, Chirp.] To chirp or chirrup. [Prov. Eng.] --Forby.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Chipper Chip"per, a. Lively; cheerful; talkative. [U. S.]

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Chipper means cheerful and lively. (OLD-FASHIONED) ADJ

Moby Thesaurus

active, activist, activistic, alert, alive, alive and kicking, animate, animated, bouncing, bouncy, breezy, bright, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, brisk, bubbly, cheep, chip, chirk, chirm, chirpy, chirrup, chirrupy, chitter, ebullient, effervescent, energetic, enjoying health, eupeptic, fine, fit, fit and fine, frisky, full of beans, full of go, full of life, full of pep, gay, healthful, healthy, in condition, in fine fettle, in fine whack, in good case, in good health, in good shape, in health, in high feather, in mint condition, in shape, in the pink, keen, live, lively, mercurial, militant, neat, orderly, peart, peep, peppy, perky, pert, quicksilver, shipshape, smacking, snappy, snug, spanking, spick-and-span, spirited, sprightly, spry, tidy, trig, trim, tweedle, tweet, twitter, uncluttered, vivacious, well-groomed, zingy