chap

noun

/t͡ʃæp/

Etymology

From Middle English chappen (“to split open, burst, chap”), of uncertain origin. Compare Middle English choppen (“to chop”), Dutch kappen (“to cut, chop, hack”). Perhaps related to chip.

inherited from chappen — “to split open, burst, chap”

Definitions

1
A man, a fellow.
- Who’s that chap over there?
- “Now when I was a little chap I had a passion for maps.”
- 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.
2
A customer, a buyer.
- 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.
A child.
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1. Of the skin, to split or flake due to cold weather or dryness.
2. 5
  To cause to open in slits or chinks
  To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.
  - Then would unbalanced heat licentious reign, / Crack the dry hill, and chap the russet plain.
  - whose fair face neither the summer's blaze can scorch nor winter's blast chap.
3. 6
  To strike, knock.
  - And then it seems that through the open door there came the chapping of a clock.
  - 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 […]
4. A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.
5. 8
  A division
  A division; a breach, as in a party.
  - Many clefts and chaps in our council board.
6. A blow
  A blow; a rap.
7. 10
  The jaw.
  - This wide-chapp'd rascal—would thou might'st lie drowning / The washing of ten tides!
  - His chaps were all besmear'd with crimson blood.
  - He unseamed him from the nave to the chaps.
8. One of the jaws or cheeks of a vice, etc.
9. Obsolete form of chop (“Asian seal used on documents”).
10. Clipping of chapter (“division of a text”).
11. Initialism of Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol.
12. A surname from Khmer.

The neighborhood

neighborchop

Derived

chapess, chapette, chap-hop, chappie, chappish, Chappism, Chappist, chappo, old chap, chap someone's hide, chapped, chapstick, chapt, chappy, chapfallen, chapless

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for chap. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA