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Americans often get confused when in the UK because "chippy" can mean either a carpenter or the fish and chips shop on the street.
by wyclif 7y ago
Americans often get confused when in the UK because "chippy" can mean either a carpenter or the fish and chips shop on the street.
- gerdesj 7y agoTo, not really, help counter that the shop is often called a "fish and chippery"!
- pbhjpbhj 7y agoDepends where your are, chipper is common to some, others say 'fish shop', some 'chippy'. Other people say they're "getting chips", or "having carry-out" and leave the place to be entirely implicit. That said, I've never seen it called the "fish and chippery", but it wouldn't surprise me to see that used.
- soylentcola 7y agoAnd in some alternate universe, "fish and chips" became "Molly's Lips" in rhyming slang, leading to phrases like "get lunch at the molly".