chap

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To Canobie Dick--(for so shall we call our Border dealer)--a chap was a chap, and he would have sold a liaise to the devil himself, without minding his cloven hoof, and would have probably cheated Old Nick into the bargain.

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  1. transitive verb To cause (the skin) to roughen, redden, or crack, especially as a result of cold or exposure: The headwind chapped the cyclist's lips.
  2. intransitive verb To split or become rough and sore: skin that chaps easily in winter.
  3. noun A sore roughening or splitting of the skin, caused especially by cold or exposure.

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  • This chap has been asking for you--for Herr Richard Dale, of London Yes, I sent for him. —  The Crystal Hunters A Boy's Adventures in the Higher Alps
  • "D'you reckon this yer chap was a Injun, then Certainly," Kiddie answered, "an Injun, young an' tall H'm!" —  Kiddie the Scout
  • Denis frequently called him to sit in the corner at the other end of the waggon, and amused himself by trying to teach him English, which the boy acquired with wonderful rapidity, it being scarcely ever necessary to tell him twice the name of a thing I'm sure the little chap is English," said Denis to Hendricks, when they outspanned for the night. —  Hendricks the Hunter The Border Farm, a Tale of Zululand
  • Of course, I thought the chap was after me and had tracked me down. —  The Torch and Other Tales
  • Of course, the chap was your father, but, but Look here, May, you ought to be able to see that I was exactly the same man after I told you as I was before. —  Tales of the Five Towns
 

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Etymologies (7)

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  1. Middle English chappen.
  2. Short for chapman.

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  1. from Middle English chappen, cleave, crack, a variant of choppen, cut, chop. Chap and chop are now partly differentiated in use. See chop and chip.
  2. from chap, v.
  3. An abbrev. of chapman, q. v. For the second sense, cf. the similar use of customer, and formerly of merchant; cf. also German kunde, a customer, purchaser, chapman, fellow, chap.
  4. from Middle English chappen, chapien, variant of chepen, chepien, English cheap: see chop and cheap, v., and cf. chap-book, chapman, chapfare, etc.
  5. Scots also chaupen, apparently a particular use of chap = chop, bargain, or of chap, strike (a bargain).
 

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