fish and chips

See also: fish-and-chips

English

Alternative forms

• fish-and-chips, fish 'n' chips

Noun

Fish and chips

fish and chips sg or pl (countable and uncountable, attributive fish and chip or fish-and-chip)

1. A meal of fish fried in batter and served with chips (fried potato pieces), popular throughout the Anglosphere, especially in coastal regions.

   Let's go to Sophie's by the sea; they have the most delicious fish and chips.

   • 1974, Pamela Sykes, Phoebe’s Family, Nashville, Tenn.: Thomas Nelson Inc., →ISBN, page 52:

     “Perfectly splendid,” Miss Flower burbled on. “And a perfect contrast to Doris, who’s so pale and thin.” / “Too many fish and chips and not enough proper vitamins,” said Mrs. Smethers.

   • 1984, Frances Thomas, chapter 22, in Zak (New Windmill Series), Oxford, Oxon: Heinemann Educational Books Ltd, published 1988, →ISBN, page 117:

     I manage to swallow a few chips just to convince them I’m not going to die of malnutrition but it’s hard going, I can tell you. Though normally fish and chips is my favourite.

   • 1992, Gloria Hatrick, Masks, New York, N.Y.: Orchard Books, published 1996, →ISBN, page 5:

     Jeez, Will, you’ve definitely had too much fish and chips. Or maybe it was all those potato chips.

   • 2009, Food Journeys of a Lifetime: 500 Extraordinary Places to Eat Around the Globe, Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, →ISBN, page 157:

     Newspaper wrapping is old news; most fish and chips are now served wrapped in plain white paper.

   • 2010 September 9, Craig LaBan, “GoodTaste”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, 181st year, number 101, page F5:

     Co-owned by Ed Strojan and his step-father, Gary Coleman, who also has the English Gardener gift shop across the street, virtually everything here is made with an eye to authenticity, from the shortcakey scones with imported clotted cream to pastry-wrapped banger sausages, sides of mushy peas, Madras curry sauce, and, especially, those fish and chips.

   • 2013, Craig Stevenson, John Mackay, Inn Aff the Bar, East Kilbride: Cheapwayround Publishers, →ISBN, page 189:

     Craig was feeling better and we ordered two fish and chips, only to be told that it would be at least an hour.

   • 2014, Keith Greenwood, “Awakening”, in The Clueless Dead, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 34:

     ‘You feeling hungry, Mike?’ Ah, back to normality! / ‘Oh yes. I’ll just have a fish and chips, Harry.’ / Two minutes later, he handed me the plate, and I retreated into my own private corner of the bar. The smell of warm potato chips and crumbed battered fish was welcoming, and it tasted nice as I washed it down with my third beer.

Usage notes

• Even in areas such as North America, where deep-fried potato slices are called fries or french fries and chips refer to what are known as crisps in the UK, this dish is still referred to as fish and chips.

Derived terms

• fish-and-chipper
• fish and chippery
• fish-and-chippy
• yesterday's fish and chips

Translations

a meal of fried fish and potatoes

• Arabic: سَمَك وَبَطَاطِس مَقْلِيَّة (samak wa-baṭāṭis maqliyya)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 炸魚薯條／炸鱼薯条 (zaa³ jyu^4-2 syu⁴ tiu^4-2)

  Mandarin: 炸魚薯條／炸鱼薯条 (zháyú shǔtiáo)

• Faroese: steikjafiskur og kips m
• Finnish: fish and chips
• French: fish and chips (fr) m, fish ’n’ chips m, poisson-frites m, poisson frit avec des frites m
• German: Bratfisch mit Pommes frites m, Fish and Chips m
• Icelandic: djúpsteiktur fiskur med frönskum m
• Irish: iasc agus sceallóga
• Japanese: フィッシュ・アンド・チップス (fisshu-ando-chippusu)
• Korean: 피시 앤드 칩스 (pisi aendeu chipseu)
• Persian: فیش اند چیپس (fiš-and-čips)
• Polish: fish and chips
• Portuguese: peixe com batatas fritas m
• Russian: ры́ба и чи́псы (rýba i čípsy), ры́ба с жа́реным карто́фелем (rýba s žárenym kartófelem), чи́псы (ru) m pl (čípsy)
• Volapük: fit e loetapötetüls
• Welsh: pysgodyn a sglodion

See also

• fish and chips on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• “fish and chips, pl.n.”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.