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chapess

English

Alternative forms

chappess

Etymology

chap +? -ess

Noun

chapess (plural chapesses)

(Britain, informal) A female chap; a woman.
- 1990, Samuel Gorley Putt, Wings of a Man's Life
  My friends are the undergraduates, chaps and chapesses, and as long as I can pour good wine down their gullets and listen into the small hours […]

Usage notes

Generally only used in the phrase chaps and chapesses.

Anagrams

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chapless

English

Etymology

chap +? -less

Adjective

chapless (not comparable)

(obsolete) Having no lower jaw; fleshless.
Hamlet - Shakespeare

HAMLETWhy, e'en so. And now my Lady Worm’s, chapless and knocked about the mazard with a sexton’s spade. Here’s fine revolution, an we had the trick to see ’t. Did these bones cost no more the breeding but to play at loggets with them? Mine ache to think on ’t.

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chapess

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