Definitions
Etymologies
- chap + -y (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Just look at Gordon Brown's fat miserable face when he sits down at around 7: 47; not a cheerful chappy is he?”
“Glen Smythe (who??) and this McKeever chappy have all been on the ‘How to talk like ACPO’ course and consequently are now part of the problem.”
National Victim Agency – Deckchairs, Titanic. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
“But instead there's a cheeky bearded chappy in a bright retro T-shirt with a raucous giggle: meet Mister Rob (as his website refers to him).”
The Guardian: Rob Ryan: The artist spreading a little love around our homes
“It is not even the Lord Mayor of the whole of London, merely some corporate lawyer chappy called David Wootton, "an ambassador for the City and financial services," according to commentator Paul Dickenson.”
The Guardian: Lord Mayor's Show is a bit of an own goal for BBC
“This chief constable chappy in Essex seems to be talking a lot of sense.”
“I have to imagine false start and unnecessary roughness penalties would come into play. chappy Says:”
“It has put a smile on his dial and he seems a happy chappy.”
“So, in his classic Triumph Stag with a Union flag painted on the bonnet, Bellamy gets to meet his giggling northern fan club, cheeky-chappy plasterer, a Pakistani community leader ...”
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
“I just think it is going to be hard to salvage the Sun angle (as well as the fake serial killer created by McNulty). — chappy”
What Do Real Thugs Think of The Wire? Part Three - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
“But when you see the look of disgust that creeps across their faces as your dad says good-bye to you, planting his chappy dad-lips on yours . . .”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘chappy’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Quaintnesses
For those who wish no words were ever forgotten
opprobrium, tedium, encomium, odium, ire, enmity, beguile, wile, brazen, popinjay, squit, hoity-toity and 1161 more...
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A few of my favorite definitions from...
I'm especially fond of ones written by Charles Sanders Peirce.
theodolite, illusion, buckie, frank, abstract-concrete, semidiagrammatic, object-object, vortex-filament, dod, parrock, cobler, weather-box and 354 more...
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