chappie

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English

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Etymology

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From chap +‎ -ie.

Noun

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chappie (plural chappies)

  1. Alternative spelling of chappy
    • 2006, Pip Wilson, Faces in the Street: Louisa and Henry Lawson and the Castlereagh Street Push, page 200:
      Now Henry knows dead cert he′s in for a stoush, but Snake-hips says he should go with him, and out on Nymagee-street Henry Lawson refuses a twenty-pound note, and the two men shake and Henry accepts the next billiards game, doubles with Snake-hips (who plays even worse than Henry), the Minister for Public Instruction, and the Austrian chappie.

Dutch

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Noun

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chappie n (plural chappies) (also m)

  1. diminutive of chap