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In British English, a chap is an informal, friendly word for a man — 'he's a nice chap' means he's a good guy. Separately, 'chapped' describes skin, especially lips or hands, that has become dry, red, and cracked, usually from cold weather.
(英式口語)傢伙、男子;(皮膚)龜裂
組成The 'fellow' meaning is a short form of 'chapman,' an old word for a trader; both 'chapman' and 'cheap' come from Old English 'ceap,' meaning trade or bargain.
同家族的字
- cheapboth come from Old English 'ceap', meaning trade or bargain
原始詞典資料15 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Chapname
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A surname from Khmer.
chapnoun詞源 1/t͡ʃæp/
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A man, a fellow.
- Who’s that chap over there?
- “Now when I was a little chap I had a passion for maps.”
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dialectalA 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.
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A child.
chapverb詞源 2/t͡ʃæp/
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Of the skin, to split or flake due to cold weather or dryness.
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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.
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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 […]
chapnoun詞源 2/t͡ʃæp/
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A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.
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obsoleteA division; a breach, as in a party.
- Many clefts and chaps in our council board.
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A blow; a rap.
chapnoun詞源 3/t͡ʃæp/
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archaicThe 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.
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One of the jaws or cheeks of a vice, etc.
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資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。