chipper vs sad

chipper

verb
  • To chirp or chirrup. 

adj
  • Exhibiting a lively optimism; in high spirits, cheerful. 

noun
  • A machine that reduces organic matter to compost; depending on size, whole tree trunks are reduced to sawdust; a woodchipper. 

  • A fish and chip shop, or more generally a cheap fast food outlet, typically selling chips and other deep-fried foods. 

  • A golf club for making chip shots. 

  • Someone who or something which chips (e.g. wood). 

  • An occasional tobacco user, or more generally drug user. 

  • A machine that chips potatoes into pieces that are ready to be fried and made into chips. 

  • A player who chips the ball. 

  • A company that manufactures potato chips/potato crisps. 

  • A deep frier. 

sad

adj
  • Soggy (to refer to pastries). 

  • Causing sorrow; lamentable. 

  • Of colours: dark, deep; later, sombre, dull. 

  • Appearing sorrowful. 

  • Feeling sorrow; sorrowful, mournful. 

  • Poor in quality, bad; shameful, deplorable; later, regrettable, poor. 

  • Unfashionable; socially inadequate or undesirable. 

How often have the words chipper and sad occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )