Cham vs Chap - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between cham and chap

is that cham is to sting, to prick while chap is of the skin, to split or flake due to cold weather or dryness.

As a noun chap is

(dated|outside|uk|and|australia) a man, a fellow or chap can be a cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin or chap can be (archaic) the jaw (often in plural).

cham

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) cham, from (etyl) (borrowed into Arabic, Persian, Mongolian etc.).

Noun

(en noun)

* 1840 , Thomas Fuller, The History of the Holy War?

But Baiothnoi, chief captain of the Tartarian army (for they were not admitted to speak with the great cham himself), cried quits with this friar, outvying him with the greatness and divinity of their cham; and sent back by them a blunt letter

An autocrat or dominant critic, especially .

* 1997': "Sitting at a table, drinking Ale, observing the Mist thro’ the Window-Panes, Mason forty-five, the '''Cham sixty-four." — Thomas Pynchon, ''Mason & Dixon

* 2007': The Tonsons would publish Johnson's Shakespeare only by subscription, obliging the Great '''Cham to sell copies well ahead of publication — Michael Dobson, ‘For his Nose was as sharpe as a Pen’, ''London Review of Books 29:9, p. 3

Etymology 2

See chap.

Verb

(chamm)

(obsolete) To chew.

* 1531 , William Tyndale, Answer to Sir Thomas More's Dialogue

But he that repenteth toward the law of God, and at the sight of the sacrament, or of the breaking, feeling, eating, chamming , or drinking, calleth to remembrance the death of Christ, his body breaking and blood shedding for our sins [...]

Anagrams

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chap

English

Etymology 1

Shortened from in 16th century English.

Noun

(en noun)

(dated, outside, UK, and, Australia) A man, a fellow.

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=A chap 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.}}

*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=20 citation , passage=‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap .’}}

(UK, dialectal) A customer, a buyer.

* Steele

If you want to sell, here is your chap .

(Southern US) A child.

Usage notes

This word's existence in the US can be seen in the Pennsylvania German term .

Synonyms

* See also

Derived terms

* chappie * chappo

Etymology 2

Related to chip .

Verb

(chapp)

Of the skin, to split or flake due to cold weather or dryness.

To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.

* Blackmore

Then would unbalanced heat licentious reign, / Crack the dry hill, and chap the russet plain.

* Lyly

Nor winter's blast chap her fair face.

(Scotland, northern England) To strike, knock.

* 2008 , (James Kelman), Kieron Smith, Boy , Penguin 2009, page 35:

The door was shut into my class. I had to chap it and then Miss Rankine came and opened it and gived me an angry look [...].

Derived terms

* chapped * chapstick

Noun

(en noun)

A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.

(obsolete) A division; a breach, as in a party.

* T. Fuller

Many clefts and chaps in our council board.

(Scotland) A blow; a rap.

Derived terms

* chappy

Etymology 3

From Northern English .

Noun

(en noun)

(archaic) The jaw (often in plural).

*1610 , , by Shakespeare

This wide-chapp'd rascal—would thou might'st lie drowning / The washing of ten tides!

* Cowley

His chaps were all besmeared with crimson blood.

* Shakespeare

He unseamed him from the nave to the chaps .

One of the jaws or cheeks of a vice, etc.