Chap

There was a time when Christopher Columbus challenged another explorer to a duel. The latter, an underhanded chap, did not take ten steps - as dictated by the rules - but two, then turned around to shoot. Unfortunately for him, Columbus hadn't taken any steps at all.

Although this chap came into the world in a somewhat impudent fashion, before he was sent for, his mother was pretty; we had fun making him, and the illegitimate fellow must be acknowledged.

Tom's a polite, kind, and self-effacing chap who you wouldn't hesitate to introduce to your parents.

He was a dashing, swaggering chap, smart and curled, who had seen half the world and could talk of what he had seen.

My dear chap, I'm overjoyed to see you.

In the winter, my lips would chap.

Lips chap in winter.

He's a lovely chap.

I took the ball, and when the chap came rushing to me, I threw the ball over his head and ran around him to catch it again!

"You know, I suppose, that they raise pa'sons there like radishes in a bed? And though it do take—how many years, Bob?—five years to turn a lirruping hobble-de-hoy chap into a solemn preaching man with no corrupt passions, they'll do it, if it can be done, and polish un off like the workmen they be, and turn un out wi' a long face, and a long black coat and waistcoat, and a religious collar and hat, same as they used to wear in the Scriptures, so that his own mother wouldn't know un sometimes."