Chappy

//ˈt͡ʃæpi// adj, name, noun, slang

adj, name, noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A chap; a fellow. British, informal
Adjective
  1. 1
    Full of chaps; cleft; gaping; open.
  2. 2
    Chapped, dry. rare

    "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."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Clipping of Chappaquiddick Island: an island of Dukes County, Massachusetts, United States, east of Martha's Vineyard. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial

    "But reality is change, so new houses and people were appearing on Chappy as on the rest of the Vineyard, and they would continue to appear; the old days were gone with the wind, like the antebellum South."

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Example

More examples

"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."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From chap + -y.

Etymology 2

Clipping of Chappaquiddick + -y.

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