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- noun The state or condition of being
chipper ;optimism .
Etymologies
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Examples
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It came from humble beginnings, the kind of chipperness you should feel at the start of your main event campaign ...
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But the bright gloss Hallmark lathers onto it — that unrelenting chipperness that permeates everything from the music to the lighting — makes your eyes ache.
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He slowed down the melody, stripping it of the chipperness that Don Gibson used to contradict his lonesomeness.
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–It is worth noting that the communist dictum, “From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs,” is a pollution of male-brain dismalness with uncharacteristic female-brain chipperness.
Whose voice? 2004
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I am making myself sick with all the chipperness, but who cares? because I HAVE CUTE HAIR!
idiot-milk Diary Entry idiot-milk 2004
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No snooty barristas here, just Glenn and his partner, Travis, and a rotating army of pretty girls and handsome boys who maintained the right degree of chipperness, depending on the hour: mellow in the morning, perky in the afternoon, laid-back in the evening.
In a Strange City Lippman, Laura, 1959- 2001
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Then he worked up a rather sickly sample of a gay laugh and a hollow chipperness of manner, and said:
Pudd'nhead Wilson 1955
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Then he worked up a rather sickly sample of a gay laugh and a hollow chipperness of manner, and said:
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Played with alarmingly intense chipperness by Jacob Hoffman, Louis is
NYT > Home Page 2010
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My voice is a little shrill with enforced chipperness.
spy scribbler 2009
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