Green’s Dictionary of Slang

cheerful, merry.

1902		J.H.M. Abbott Tommy Cornstalk 205: ’E comes bowlin’ in, ’s chippy ’s if ’e’d bin to a bloomin’ dawg-fight.
1905		Sun. Times (Perth) 17 Sept. 1/4: The episode of the widow’s wheat is going to make a chippy column.
1911		Gem 30 Sept. 20: You ought to be looking a bit more chippy now, I should think. We’ve come out of it all right.