chipper > define

adjective

• Having a cheerful, lively, and self-confident air.
  • usage: "looking chipper, like a man... Diverted by his own wit- Frances G. Patton; "life that is gay, brisk, and debonair- H. M. Reynolds; "walked with a jaunty step"; "a jaunty optimist"
  • synonyms: debonair, debonaire, jaunty

• (a.) Lively; cheerful; talkative.
• (v.i.) To chirp or chirrup.