Chipping
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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
- A hamlet in Buckland parish, East Hertfordshire district, Hertfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL3532).
- A village and civil parish in Ribble Valley district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD6243).
- 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...
- 1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed., Vol. II, p. 192: