chippin

All this chippin and choppin is very unsettling for a simple Catholic like me!

Just a couple of guys I bumped into in the Oratory car park! No..NOT Fr Guy! Catholic Mom of 10 2009

"Of course, it could be that they finally got tired of chippin 'and paintin' those old 'cans, and decided to use 'em up-best thing to do with a' can anyway."

Red Storm Rising Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1986

We blowed with the belluses, 'n' we stuffed in paper 'n' pitch-pine kindlin's, but nothin 'could make that fire burn;' n 'all the time the folks kep' comin ', as if they'd never stop, --' n 'nothin' for 'em but empty dishes, 'n' all the borrowed chaney slippin 'round on the waiters' n 'chippin' 'n' crackin '.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860 Various

Ol 'Noah kep' a-nailin 'an' a-chippin 'an' a-sawin ';

De Fust Banjo 1919

I don't mind you goin 'to church and chippin' in your nickel when the plate passes, and it's all right to buy stuff at their sales.

The Second Chance 1910

I don't mind you goin 'to church and chippin' in your nickel when the plate passes, and it's all right to buy stuff at their sales.

The Second Chance Nellie L. McClung 1912

Anyway I've never been up yet without a most un-natural lot o 'bullets chippin' twigs off the hedge an 'smackin' into the ditch.

Between the Lines Boyd Cable 1910

Then 'e went up an' finished 'is chippin' an 'brought the guns into action again.

Between the Lines Boyd Cable 1910

Ol 'Noah kep' a-nailin 'an' a-chippin 'an' a-sawin ',

Southern Prose and Poetry for Schools 1910

It wasn't very sisterly, either, and most of it would have sounded better at a race-track; but I shut the transom and motioned to Sadie to let him spiel away, never chippin 'in a word, only standing one side and lookin' him over.

Shorty McCabe Sewell Ford 1907