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chiper

Pronunciation: /ʃi.pe/

“chiper” is a French word. Its meaning in English:

verb

  1. to pinch, steal, filch, rob

In French

  1. Dérober un objet de peu de valeur. Prendre ce qui est à autrui.
  2. Faire tomber amoureux; énamourer.
  3. Donner le chipage aux peaux.

Etymology

Probably a derivative of chippe (compare chiffe (“old cloth, rag”)) in the sense of "to hide something of little value", from Middle English chip, chippe (“fragment, worthless thing”) from Old English ċipp (“splinter, beam”) from Proto-Germanic *kippaz, *kipaz (“beam, log”). More at chip.

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