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- What does Chap when it describes a person? [closed]
However, 'chap' here is informal, just a less highbrow remote replacement for 'person', and (from the context, which hints at say a Bertie-Wooster-like association) having a (dated) British upper-class connection
- Whats the difference between bloke, chap and lad?
chap — " (British) fellow Origin of chap: chapman" lad — "a male person of any age between early boyhood and maturity" So, it seems, that lad can be related only to a young person While chap and bloke to any male person My British fellow said: Chap is more delicate; bloke is rougher a bit Chap is posh, bloke is common
- single word requests - Feminine Forms for chaps and blokes - English . . .
(Source: Can a woman be a chap?, Patricia T O’Conner and Stewart Kellerman, Grammarphobia, 15 May 2019) Increasingly there is criticism of using potentially gendered terms such as "guys"; you can argue if they are gendered, but there is still the risk of excluding women or upsetting people
- Is there a standard symbol for denoting a chapter in a citation?
No The standard abbreviations are Ch and Chap …or at least, if there is such a symbol, Unicode doesn’t know about it yet — and Unicode is pretty comprehensive, including characters as diverse as the inverted interrobang ⸘, biohazard sign ☣, and snowman ☃, not to mention the Shavian alphabet and much, much, much more
- What exactly does tally ho mean? - English Language Usage Stack . . .
@MichaelOwenSartin: To add to the wikipedia article "tally-ho" comes French taïaut or tayaut evolved from Middle French ta-ho formed from two onomatopœic words: ta that was the cry to stimulate the animals and ho a rallying cry It was used in foxhunting to signal the beast, and also in classical French to expose someone to public condemnation
- vocabulary - Poor chap vs. poor woman - English Language Usage Stack . . .
Poor chap vs poor woman [closed] Ask Question Asked 10 years, 2 months ago Modified 10 years, 2 months ago
- What does I chap easily mean? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
This was supposed to be a funny line but I don't understand what it means I think to chap means for the skin to become rough and cracked as in a cold winter, but what does it mean in this context and why is it supposed to be funny?
- meaning - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
1993 A Habens in M Bradbury A Motion New Writing 2 247 It's a rum do if a chap isn't allowed to remember what he remembers The adjective rum gives rise to may composites e g rum-looking, rum-sounding etc
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