chap

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A man, a fellow.
    — Who’s that chap over there?
  2. A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.
  3. The jaw. archaic,in-plural,often
    — This wide-chapp'd rascal—would thou might'st lie drowning / The washing of ten tides!
  4. Obsolete form of chop (“Asian seal used on documents”). alt-of,obsolete
  5. Clipping of chapter (“division of a text”). Internet,abbreviation,alt-of,clipping
  6. A customer, a buyer. UK,dialectal
    — 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.
  7. A division; a breach, as in a party. obsolete
    — Many clefts and chaps in our council board.
  8. One of the jaws or cheeks of a vice, etc.
  9. A child. Southern-US
  10. A blow; a rap. Scotland
动词 v.
  1. Of the skin, to split or flake due to cold weather or dryness. intransitive
  2. To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough. transitive
    — Then would unbalanced heat licentious reign, / Crack the dry hill, and chap the russet plain.
  3. To strike, knock. Northern-England,Scotland
    — And then it seems that through the open door there came the chapping of a clock.

词形变化

chaps plural chaps present,singular,third-person chapping participle,present chapped participle,past chapped past chaps plural chaps plural chaps plural chaps plural

词汇关系

衍生词
chapess chapette chap-hop chappie chappish Chappism Chappist chappo old chap chap someone's hide chapped chapstick chapt chappy chapfallen chapless
相关词
chop

词源

词源 1
Clipping of chapman (“dealer, customer”) in 16th-century English.
词源 2
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.
词源 3
From Northern English chafts (“jaws”). Compare also Middle English cheppe (“one side of the jaw, chap”).
词源 4
Shortening.
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