chap
chap (c̸häp, c̸hap)
chap (c̸hap)
chap (c̸hap)
transitive verb, intransitive verb chapped or chapt, chap′·ping
to crack open; split; roughen, as the skin from exposure to cold
Etymology: ME chappen, var. of choppen: see chop
noun
a chapped place in the skin
chap
- chaplain
- chapter
Object
- lip: Diabetic with chapped lips Geographic tongue - what is it?
- skin: Also for relief from itching, dry and chapped skin, nettle rash, insect bites and stings.
Converse of object
- remember: I can remember a chap, I think they used to call Monty.
- call: Met a chap called Al, who claimed to be in a band.
- meet: Met a chap called Al, who claimed to be in a band.
- seem: From inside his head, he seems a pleasant enough chap.
- ask: She asks the chap from the Halifax for advice.
- dress: There was a chinese chap dressed in a blood stained chefs outfit chasing a bloke who had run off with the till!
Adjective modifier
- likeable: He is a most likeable chap, yet displays cutting and sometimes acidic wit.
- handsome: He is a handsome chap, waiting for his luck to change.
- jolly: At Lewknor, a jolly chap got on and smirked at the driver; " Your coach is covered in twelve's!
- cheeky: Halfway through some cheeky chap mentioned how he wanted to strip off!
- esp.: Leoni, Freedom and The Law, esp. chap.
- nice: Homer, nice chap, could expect no less.
Modifying Another Word
- dear: You must keep me informed, my dear chap.
Noun used with modifier
- wee: Well what can I say about this poor wee chap.
- Thank: Thanks chaps I'll treasure that memory for ever.
- leather: Wear a hard hat and leather chaps if you think the horse may cause trouble.
- thank: You may notice that Ben Rock and Jon Vamp have already done this ( many thanks chaps ).
Preposition: with
- beard: I knew I'd got the right place - just behind the glass door stood a chap with an unfeasibly bushy white beard.
Roderick Spode? Big chap with a small moustache and the sort of eye that can open an oyster at sixty paces?
If a chap seems bent on cheatin' himself, I like to be neighbourly and help him to do it.
News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead.
Thepublic has always expectedmetobea playboyanda decent chap never lets his public down.
My dear chap! Good isn't the word!
The Right Honwas atubby little chapwho looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say 'When!'
Browse dictionary entries near chap
- chaotic
- chaos theory
- Chaos Computer Club
- chaos
- Chao Phraya
- Chanukah
- chantry
- Chantilly
- chanticleer
- chantey
- chaparejos
- chaparral
- chaparral pea
- chapati
- chapbook
- chape
- chapeau
- chapel
- chaperon
- chapfallen
