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[ adjective ] having a cheerful, lively, and self-confident air

Examples

"looking chipper, like a man...diverted by his own wit"- Frances G. Patton "life that is gay, brisk, and debonair"- H.M.Reynolds "walked with a jaunty step" "a jaunty optimist"

Used in print

(Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land....)

My , you look chipper '' .

Related terms

cheerful

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