Chap vs Bastard - What's the difference?
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(dated, outside, UK, and, Australia) A man, a fellow.
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, chapter=20 (UK, dialectal) A customer, a buyer.
* Steele
(Southern US) A child.
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
* Lyly
(Scotland, northern England) To strike, knock.
* 2008 , (James Kelman), Kieron Smith, Boy , Penguin 2009, page 35:
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
(Scotland) A blow; a rap.
(archaic) The jaw (often in plural).
*1610 , , by Shakespeare
* Cowley
* Shakespeare
One of the jaws or cheeks of a vice, etc.
A person who was born out of wedlock, and hence often considered an illegitimate descendant.
A mongrel. A biological cross between different breeds, groups or varieties.
(vulgar, referring to a man) A contemptible, inconsiderate, overly or arrogantly rude or spiteful person. See asshole, sod.
:: "Oh my God, they killed Kenny! "You bastards !"
(often, humorous) A man, a fellow, a male friend.
(often preceded by 'poor') A person deserving of pity.
(informal) A child who does not know his or her father.
(informal) Something extremely difficult or unpleasant to deal with.
A variation that is not genuine; something irregular or inferior or of dubious origin, fake or counterfeit.
An intermediate-grade file; also bastard file.
A sweet wine.
* William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure :
A sword that is midway in length between a short-sword and a long sword; also bastard sword.
An inferior quality of soft brown sugar, obtained from syrups that have been boiled several times.
A large mould for straining sugar.
A writing paper of a particular size.
of or like a bastard (illegitimate human descendant)
of or like a bastard (bad person)
of or like a mongrel, bastardized creature/cross
of abnormal, irregular or otherwise inferior qualities (size, shape etc.)
spurious, lacking authenticity: counterfeit, fake
* Barrow
(UK, vulgar) Very unpleasant.
(printing) Abbreviated, as the half title in a page preceding the full title page of a book.
(rare, vulgar) Exclamation of strong dismay or strong sense of being upset.
* 2001 , (Stephen King), “(The Death of Jack Hamilton)”, in (w, Everything's Eventual) , Simon and Schuster (2007), ISBN 978-1-4165-4985-7,
* 2004 , Cecelia Ahern, PS, I Love You (novel), Hyperion, ISBN 978-1-4013-0090-6,
* 2006 , Emily Franklin, Love from London , Penguin, ISBN 978-0-451-21773-8,
English swear words
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In obsolete terms the difference between chap and bastard
is that chap is a division; a breach, as in a party while bastard is to bastardize.As nouns the difference between chap and bastard
is that chap is a man, a fellow while bastard is a person who was born out of wedlock, and hence often considered an illegitimate descendant.As verbs the difference between chap and bastard
is that chap is of the skin, to split or flake due to cold weather or dryness while bastard is to bastardize.As an adjective bastard is
of or like a bastard (illegitimate human descendant.As an interjection bastard is
exclamation of strong dismay or strong sense of being upset.chap
English
Etymology 1
Shortened from in 16th century English.Noun
(en noun)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.}}
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 .’}}
- If you want to sell, here is your chap .
Usage notes
This word's existence in the US can be seen in the Pennsylvania German term .Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* chappie * chappoEtymology 2
Related to chip .Verb
(chapp)- Then would unbalanced heat licentious reign, / Crack the dry hill, and chap the russet plain.
- Nor winter's blast chap her fair face.
- 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 * chapstickNoun
(en noun)- Many clefts and chaps in our council board.
Derived terms
* chappyEtymology 3
From Northern English .Noun
(en noun)- This wide-chapp'd rascal—would thou might'st lie drowning / The washing of ten tides!
- His chaps were all besmeared with crimson blood.
- He unseamed him from the nave to the chaps .
See also
* chapsAnagrams
*bastard
English
Noun
(en noun)- Some bastard stole my car while I was helping an injured person.
- 1997 , television program
- I'll tell you one thing, you prick bastard , you know what I really hope for, pray for, and wish for?
- This makes them realize they're human and maybe makes them less likely to be insensitive to the people they have to come in contact with because if they act too much like bastards , sooner or later someone is going to pop them one.
- Jesus you are a cold bastard , you know that?
- lucky bastard''', poor '''bastard
- Get over here, you old bastard !
- Poor bastard , I feel so sorry for him.
- These poor bastards started out life probably in bad or broken homes.
- Life can be a real bastard .
- The architecture was a kind of bastard , suggesting Gothic but not being true Gothic.
- We shall have all the world drink brown and white bastard .
Usage notes
* (one born to unmarried parents) Not always regarded as a (religious) stigma (in canon law prohibitive for clerical office without papal indult): Norman duke William, the Conqueror of England, is referred to in state documents as "William the Bastard"; a Burgundian prince was even officially styled Great Bastard of Burgundy.Synonyms
* (illegitimate descendant): love-child, born in the vestry * (term of abuse): son of a bitch; arsehole, assholeDerived terms
(terms derived from bastard) * * * bastardise, bastardize * bastardisation, bastardization * * * * * * * *Adjective
(en adjective)- a bastard''' musket; a '''bastard culverin
- that bastard self-love which is so vicious in itself, and productive of so many vices
- I've got a bastard headache.
Interjection
(en-interj)!page 90:
- Jack says, “Oh! Bastard ! I’m hit!” That bullet had to have come in the busted back window and how it missed Johnnie to hit Jack I don’t know.
page 7:
- “Yes, I’m hhhhowwwwwwcch!” she yelped as she stubbed her toe against the bedpost. “Shit, shit, fuck, bastard , shit, crap!”
page 212:
- “Isn’t she lovely?” Clem asks, hopefully rhetorically. “Oh, bastard . I’ve got to go—that’s my signal. ”