chappy
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See also: Chappy
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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Noun[edit]
chappy (plural chappies)
Synonyms[edit]
- See Thesaurus:man
Adjective[edit]
chappy (comparative more chappy, superlative most chappy)
- Full of chaps; cleft; gaping; open.
- (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.
References[edit]
- “chappy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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