A comparatively recent coinage, it is said, of The Sporting Times from the Irish bally-hooly.
The word is used in the same manner as blooming and bloody, i. e. as a meaningless intensive expression. Bloody is an adj. used on every possible occasion by Eng. workmen, but without meaning. Schoolboys and grown-up persons of the better classes use bally.
chip in
»She took ‘the liberty of chipping in’, to use her own expression.» (They And I. 226. 6.)
An actress.
= of joining in the conversation.
To chip in is sport-slang (Cards) for »to put a chip (or counter) in the pool»; hence, by extension, to make a contribution to, or take part in, anything—e. g. a conversation or an enterprise.
coach
»The shy, backward boy I had coached and bullied.» (Sketches 83. 10.)