Anagrams of CHIRPILY_

• a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential

• very irritable

• having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.

• A fish-and-chip shop.

• A carpenter.

• The youngest member of a team or group, normally someone whose voice has not yet deepened, talking like a chipmunk.

• A potato chip.

• A prostitute or promiscuous woman.

• A chiptune.

• A chipping sparrow.

• To take drugs (especially heroin) on an occasional basis, rather than as an addict.

• Ill-tempered, disagreeable.

• Involving violence or unfair play.

• (of wood) Tending to form chips when cut, rather than larger, more usable pieces of wood.

• As dry as a chip of wood.

• Feeling sick from drinking alcohol; hung over.

• the human face (`kisser' and `smiler' and `mug' are informal terms for `face' and `phiz' is British)

• English illustrator of several of Dickens' novels (1815-1882)

• in a cheerfully buoyant manner

• of or relating to a war dance of ancient Greece

• of or relating to or containing a metrical foot of two unstressed syllables

• of or relating to or resembling Pyrrhus or his exploits (especially his sustaining staggering losses in order to defeat the Romans)

• a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed syllables

• an ancient Greek dance imitating the motions of warfare

• (of a woman or girl) slender and graceful like a sylph