brother chip

English

Etymology

Compare chips (“a carpenter”).

Noun

brother chip

  1. (UK, slang, archaic) Term of address for a fellow tradesman, originally a carpenter.
    • 1853, Talbot Gwynne, The School for Dreamers: A Story of the Present Day, page 208:
      He was saluted by Mr. James Hall, with these words: “Well, brother chip! How many murders have you been committing?”

References
  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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