chappy

From chap +‎ -y.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃæpi/

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• Rhymes: -æpi
• Hyphenation: chap‧py

chappy (plural chappies)

1. (British, informal) A chap; a fellow.

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chappy (comparative more chappy, superlative most chappy)

1. Full of chaps; cleft; gaping; open.
2. (of skin, rare, perhaps archaic) Chapped, dry.
   • 1939, National Health Review‎^[1], volumes 7–9, page 220:

     The application was followed at once by terrible pain in the wound; furthermore, there appeared a dry and chappy tongue, intolerable thirst, colics, cramplike contractions of the legs and back, and a weak and irregular pulse.

• “chappy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Derived from Middle English chappen (“to chop”) + -y (“suffix forming noun”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃapiː/

chappy

1. Food for small children, consisting of roast potatoes, mashed, with butter and milk added.

• Diarmaid Ó Muirithe (1990) “A Modern Glossary of the Dialect of Forth and Bargy”, in lrish University Review‎^[2], volume 20, number 1, Edinburgh University Press, page 155