Feb 6, 2020 · 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 …

Dec 7, 2012 · 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. …

Mar 26, 2023 · (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 …

Sep 4, 2023 · 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 …

Dec 6, 2014 · 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 …

Calling a lady a bird was commonplace in the late 1900s. Now it's less so, but the British have a habit of reviving these types of words to use playfully, so people will say stuff like "no problem chap", despite …

Sep 1, 2021 · We ["Ethiopian serenaders"] sometimes have a greenhorn wants to go out pitching with us—a mug we calls them ; and there's a chap of the name of 'Sparrow-back', as we called him, …

This was used in Theodore Cyphon, or, The benevolent Jew: a novel, Volume 3 by George Walker, published in 1796. The protagonist is greeted not long after landing on the shore of Essex: "Halloo ! …

Jan 8, 2016 · Is the correct phrase “ to hold your piece ” or “ to hold your peace ”? This matter is often mentioned together with the matter of “ saying one's piece ”, which has already been answered. In …

Sep 13, 2016 · Does anyone have any insight into the actual origin of the term red cent? I've heard several timelines and possible origins, including cardboard 1/10-of-a-penny coins early in the 20th …