1. 1(英式口語)傢伙、男子;(皮膚)龜裂

    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.

From the word’s history

Clipping of chapman 'dealer, customer', 16th century.

16 世紀由 chapman「買賣的人」縮短而來。

Wiktionary

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,摘錄並精簡格式,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

  • 1

    A surname from Khmer.

chapnoun詞源 1/t͡ʃæp/

  • 1

    A man, a fellow.

    • Who’s that chap over there?
    • “Now when I was a little chap I had a passion for maps.”
  • 2

    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.
  • 3

    A child.

chapverb詞源 2/t͡ʃæp/

  • 1

    Of the skin, to split or flake due to cold weather or dryness.

  • 2

    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

    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/

  • 1

    A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.

  • 2

    obsoleteA division; a breach, as in a party.

    • Many clefts and chaps in our council board.
  • 3

    A blow; a rap.

chapnoun詞源 3/t͡ʃæp/

  • 1

    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.
  • 2

    One of the jaws or cheeks of a vice, etc.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:

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