Clipping ofchapman ( “ dealer, customer ” ) in 16th-century English.
chap (plural chaps
( dated outside UK and Australia ) man , afellow .Synonyms: see Thesaurus:man Who’s thatchap over there?
1899 Joseph Conrad , “The Heart of Darkness ”, inBlackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine [ … ] →OCLC page194 :“Now when I was a littlechap I had a passion for maps.”
1913 Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln , chapter I, inMr. Pratt’s Patients , New York, N.Y.; London:D[aniel] Appleton and Company ,→OCLC Achap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well.
( UK , dialectal ) 1728 John Gay ,The Beggar's Opera Act 3 :If you have Blacks of any kind, brought in of late; Mantoes--Velvet Scarfs--Petticoats--Let it be what it will--I am yourChap --for all my Ladies are very fond of Mourning.
( Southern US ) child .man or fellow
Arabic:شَاب m ( šāb ) ,رَجُل (ar) m ( rajul ) Bulgarian:чове́к (bg) m ( čovék ) ,момче́ (bg) n ( momčé ) Catalan:noi (ca) m home (ca) m individu (ca) m Chinese:Mandarin:家伙 (zh) ( jiāhuo ) ,小子 (zh) ( xiǎozi ) Finnish:kaveri (fi) ;kundi (fi) ( dialectal ) French:bougre (fr) m mec (fr) m quidam (fr) m German:Kerl (de) m Typ (de) m Ido:kerlo (io) Italian:tipo (it) ,tizio (it) Japanese:やつ (ja) ( yatsu ) ,奴 (ja) ( やつ, yatsu ) Maori:autaia tāhae tāhake korokē Norman:gas m Occitan:amic (oc) m Ottoman Turkish:حریف ( herif ) Plautdietsch:Benjel m Polish:gość (pl) m Portuguese:camarada (pt) m or f cara (pt) m ( Brazil ) ,cabra (pt) m ( Northeast Brazil ) Russian:мужи́к (ru) m ( mužík ) ,па́рень (ru) m ( párenʹ ) ,ма́лый (ru) m ( mályj ) ( colloquial ) ,чува́к (ru) m ( čuvák ) ( slang ) ,кент (ru) m ( kent ) ( slang ) Sicilian:cristianu (scn) ,tipu (scn) ,tizziu Spanish:tipo (es) m Tamil:ஆள் (ta) ( āḷ ) Welsh:bachan m boi m
dialectal: customer, buyer
FromMiddle English chappen ( “ to split open, burst, chap ” ) , of uncertain origin. CompareMiddle English choppen ( “ to chop ” ) ,Dutch kappen ( “ to cut, chop, hack ” ) . Perhaps related tochip
chap (third-person singular simple present chaps present participle chapping simple past and past participle chapped
( intransitive ) split orflake due to cold weather or dryness.( transitive ) 1712 Richard Blackmore ,Creation: A Philosophical Poem :Then would unbalanced heat licentious reign, / Crack the dry hill, andchap the russet plain.
1591 John Lyly ,Endymion whose fair face neither the summer's blaze can scorch nor winter's blastchap .
( Scotland , Northern England ) strike ,knock .1902 The Outgoing of the Tide :And then it seems that through the open door there came thechapping of a clock.
2008 James Kelman ,Kieron Smith, Boy , Penguin, published2009 , page35 :The door was shut into my class. I had tochap it and then Miss Rankine came and opened it and gived me an angry look[ …]
of skin: to split or flake
of skin: to cause to split or flake
chap (plural chaps
Acleft ,crack , orchink , as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin. ( obsolete ) division ; abreach , as in aparty .1655 Thomas Fuller ,The Church-history of Britain; [ … ] , London: [ … ] Iohn Williams [ … ] →OCLC (please specify |book=I to XI) :Many clefts andchaps in our council board. ( Scotland ) blow ; arap .From Northern Englishchafts ( “ jaws ” ) . Compare alsoMiddle English cheppe ( “ one side of the jaw, chap ” ) .
chap (plural chaps
( archaic , often in theplural ) jaw .1610–1611 (date written)William Shakespeare , “The Tempest ”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [ … ] (First Folio ), London: [ … ] Isaac Iaggard , andEd[ ward] Blount , published1623 ,→OCLC (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals) :This wide-chapp'd rascal—would thou might'st lie drowning / The washing of ten tides!
c. 1606 (date written),William Shakespeare , “The Tragedie of Macbeth ”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [ … ] (First Folio ), London: [ … ] Isaac Iaggard , andEd[ ward] Blount , published1623 ,→OCLC [ Act I, scene ii] :He unseamed him from the nave to thechaps .
One of the jaws or cheeks of avice , etc. Shortening
chap (plural chaps
( Internet slang ) Clipping ofchapter ( “ division of a text ” ) chap m plural chappen diminutive chappie n
alternative spelling ofsjap IPA (key ) : /ˈxap/ Rhymes:-ap Syllabification:chap Onomatopoeic .
chap
used to express an unexpected movement involving a sudden grasping of something See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
chap
second-person singular imperative ofchapać chap inWielki słownik języka polskiego , Instytut Języka Polskiego PANchap in Polish dictionaries at PWNLateMiddle English Old English *ċeappian *ċieppan Proto-Germanic *kapp- *kap- ( “ to chop; cut; split ” ) , like alsoEnglish chop Vulgar Latin *cuppare ( “ to behead ” ) , fromLatin caput ( “ head ” ) and influenced byOld French couper ( “ to strike ” ) .[ 1]
Akin toSaterland Frisian kappe kapje ( “ to hack; chop; lop off ” ) ,Dutch kappen ( “ to chop, cut, hew ” ) ,Middle Low German koppen ( “ to cut off, lop, poll ” ) , German Low Germankappen ( “ to cut off; clip ” ) , Germankappen ( “ to cut; clip ” ) , German dialectalchapfen ( “ to chop into small pieces ” ) ,Danish kappe ( “ to cut, lop off, poll ” ) ,Swedish kapa ( “ to cut ” ) , Albaniancopë ( “ piece, chunk ” ) ,Old English *ċippian forċippian ( “ to cut off ” ) ).
chap
( ambitransitive ) FromProto-Mon-Khmer *cap ~ *caap ( “ to seize ” ) . Cognate withOld Khmer cap ( “ to seize, catch ” ) ,Kuy caːp (“to catch, hold”).
chap [ 1]
tohold tocatch ; toseize totouch ^ Basrim bin Ngah Aching (2008 ),Kamus Engròq Semay – Engròq Malaysia, Kamus Bahasa Semai – Bahasa Malaysia Institut Alam dan Tamadun Melayu , Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 
