chapped

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʃæpt/

Verb

chapped

1. simple past and past participle of chap

Adjective

chapped (comparative more chapped, superlative most chapped)

1. (of skin) Dry and flaky due to excessive evaporation of water from its surface.
   • 1854, Sir Erasmus Wilson, Healthy skin: a popular treatise on the skin and hair, their preservation and management:

     For chapped lips, or chapped nipples, the tincture of catechu, or benjamin, ... / For severely chapped hands or face, the oxide of zinc ointment or camphor ...

   • 1913, Willa Cather, O Pioneers!

     […] his nose and his chubby cheeks were chapped and red with cold.

2. (in combination) Having chaps, or jaws, of a specified kind.
   • (Can we date this quote?), William Shakespeare, The Tempest

     this wide-chapped rascal

Translations

of skin: dry and flaky

• Bulgarian: напукан (bg) (napukan)
• Finnish: rohtunut (fi)
• French: gercé (fr) m
• Italian: screpolato (it) m
• Latin: rīmōsus
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• Maori: pātotoi, tāpā, raupā
• Russian: обве́тренный (ru) m (obvétrennyj), потрескавшийся (ru) m (potreskavšijsja)
• Spanish: agrietado (es)