Chappy
adj, name, noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 A chap; a fellow. British, informal
- 1 Full of chaps; cleft; gaping; open.
- 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."
- 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."
Synonyms
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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
From chap + -y.
Clipping of Chappaquiddick + -y.