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chapess

noun

Etymology

From chap + -ess.

  1. inherited from chappen — “to split open, burst, chap”
  2. suffixed as chapess — “chap + ess”

Definitions

  1. A female chap

    A female chap; a woman.

    • My friends are the undergraduates, chaps and chapesses, and as long as I can pour good wine down their gullets and listen into the small hours […]
    • […] so naturally, we simply couldn't afford to have chaps and chapesses tying the knot and then not having babies after all that fuss.
    • Those revered as saints are usually very peculiar chaps and chapesses who succeeded in refusing life just short of actually killing themselves […]

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