Chipping

See also: chipping

English

Etymology

From Old English cēping (“market, marketplace”). Compare Swedish köping ("market"). Chipping, Cheapside, and cheap all reflect ancestry from Old English ceapian, concerning trading in markets.

Proper noun

Chipping

1. A hamlet in Buckland parish, East Hertfordshire district, Hertfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL3532).
2. A village and civil parish in Ribble Valley district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD6243).
3. Obsolete form of Chepping Wycombe.
   • 1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed., Vol. II, p. 192:

     CHIPPING, or Much-Wiccomb, a borough-town of Buckinghamſhire, about ten miles ſouth of Aileſbury...

Derived terms

• Chipping Barnet
• Chipping Campden
• Chipping Norton
• Chipping Ongar
• Chipping Sodbury
• Chipping Warden