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feeling or displaying eagerness to fight
- a chippy, defensive fellow whose alma mater was the school of hard knocks
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- acidic,
- bearish,
- bilious,
- bristly,
- choleric,
- crabby,
- cranky,
- cross,
- disagreeable,
- dyspeptic,
- fractious,
- fretful,
- grouchy,
- grumpy,
- huffy,
- ill-humored,
- ill-natured,
- ill-tempered,
- irascible,
- irritable,
- ornery,
- peevish,
- pettish,
- petulant,
- prickly,
- querulous,
- rude,
- snappish,
- snappy,
- stroppy
- [British],
- surly,
- testy,
- touchy,
- ugly,
- waspish
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The first known use of chippy was in 1898
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