"chipper of" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is commonly used to describe someone who is cheerful or enthusiastic about something. Here is an example: "Samantha was the chipper of the group, always bringing positive energy and a smile to everyone's face."
Letter-perfect, yes, but its spirit has been crushed in the wood chipper of literalism.
Ihave been wearing neon nail polish for most of the summer, which is uncharacteristically chipper of me.
(And even if it only surfaces on television in the most maudlin or chipper of terms, we know how much all of us, in greater and lesser ways, struggle with trial and disability).
Three big dome tents were packed with young men in sleeping bags who had had a late night of festivities -- clearly not members of the super-chipper crack-of-dawn crew I was with.
With that name and his smooth looks, he could probably land a real gig of this dubious kind: exuding the chipper vacuousness of a Ryan Seacrest, he aces the tricky act of playing dumb while radiating smarts.
Of course there's a chipper version of Woody Guthrie's "Happy Joyous Hanukkah" on "Holly Happy Days," the first, um, seasonal album by the Indigo Girls, who in their commitment to equality of all forms, were strenuous in their inclusion of all sorts of winter styles.
The band was formed while its members were students at Columbia University, and it arrived with an improbable but chipper kind of pop: a bouncing, galloping mixture of new wave, Baroque keyboard figures, ska, Afro-pop guitars, allusion-laden lyrics and impossibly perky choruses.
Because, however, of the overwhelming marketing campaign, the chipper tweets of those lucky enough to have seen "The Avengers" already, and the high critical rating on Rotten Tomatoes, you might go into the film expecting something like "The Dark Knight".
General magazines once flourished because of it; even Ladies' Home Journal, better known now as a chipper dispenser of service journalism and horoscopes, used to publish the likes of Edith Wharton and W. H. Auden.
Kennedy's impulsive decision to leave his Chicago hotel room and talk to demonstrators who are massing in Grant Park helps galvanize popular support, much as his handling of his near-death experience at the hands of Sirhan Sirhan (like President Ronald Reagan's chipper handling of the attempt on his life in 1981) wins him new sympathy and admiration.
This chipper child of old-school Las Vegas doesn't have much of a voice, but at least she can carry a tune.
