chap
see also: CHAP, Chap
Pronunciation
CHAP
Proper noun
Chap
Etymology
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see also: CHAP, Chap
Pronunciation
- IPA: /t͡ʃæp/
chap (plural chaps)
- (dated, outside, UK and Australia) A man, a fellow.
- Synonyms: Thesaurus:man
- Who’s that chap over there?
- 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC ↗, part I, page 194 ↗:
- “Now when I was a little chap I had a passion for maps.”
- 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC ↗:
- A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 20, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC ↗:
- ‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’
- (UK, dialectal) A customer, a buyer.
- 1728, John Gay, The Beggar's Opera, Act 3:
- If you have Blacks of any kind, brought in of late; Mantoes--Velvet Scarfs--Petticoats--Let it be what it will--I am your Chap--for all my Ladies are very fond of Mourning.
- (Southern US) A child.
- French: bougre, mec, quidam
- German: Kerl, Typ
- Italian: tipo, tizio
- Portuguese: camarada, cara (Brazil), cabra (Northeast Brazil)
- Russian: мужи́к
- Spanish: tipo
From Middle English chappen, of uncertain origin.
Verbchap (chaps, present participle chapping; simple past and past participle chapped)
- (intransitive) Of the skin, to split or flake due to cold weather or dryness.
- (transitive) To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.
- 1712, Richard Blackmore, Creation: A Philosophical Poem:
- Then would unbalanced heat licentious reign, / Crack the dry hill, and chap the russet plain.
- 1591, John Lyly, Endymion:
- whose fair face neither the summer's blaze can scorch nor winter's blast chap.
- (Scotland, northern England) To strike, knock.
- 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
- And then it seems that through the open door there came the chapping of a clock.
- 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin, published 2009, page 35:
- The door was shut into my class. I had to chap it and then Miss Rankine came and opened it and gived me an angry look […]
- German: aufrauen
- Portuguese: rachar
- Russian: тре́скаться
- French: crevasser
chap (plural chaps)
- A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.
- (obsolete) A division; a breach, as in a party.
- 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC ↗:
- Many clefts and chaps in our council board.
- (Scotland) A blow; a rap.
From Northern English chafts ("jaws").
Nounchap (plural chaps)
- (archaic, often, in the plural) The jaw.
- 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
- This wide-chapp'd rascal—would thou might'st lie drowning / The washing of ten tides!
- a. 1667, Abraham Cowley, The Song:
- His chaps were all besmear'd with crimson blood.
- c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act I, scene ii]:
- He unseamed him from the nave to the chaps.
- One of the jaws or cheeks of a vice, etc.
- Russian: че́люсть
Shortening
Nounchap (plural chaps)
- (internet slang) Clipping of chapter
CHAP
Proper noun
- (computing) Initialism of Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol
Chap
Etymology
Borrowed from Khmer ឆាប.
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