Chap vs Chav - What's the difference?
chap | chav |
(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.
(UK, pejorative, offensive) A working-class youth, especially one associated with aggression, poor education, and a perceived "common" taste in clothing and lifestyle.
* 2011 , ‘Giving the poor a good kicking’, The Economist , 18 Jun 2011:
As nouns the difference between chap and chav
is that 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) while chav is (uk|pejorative|offensive) a working-class youth, especially one associated with aggression, poor education, and a perceived "common" taste in clothing and lifestyle.As a verb chap
is of the skin, to split or flake due to cold weather or dryness.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
*chav
English
(wikipedia chav)Noun
(en noun)- His book concerns ‘chavs ’, a supposed underclass of ill-educated, fast-breeding, violent and amoral poor people currently plaguing Britain.
Synonyms
* SeeDerived terms
* chavelling * chavette * chavster * chavtastic * chavving * chavvyReferences
*"Good news for chavs: they may be cool people soon"by Robin Young, The Times , 2004-10-19, accessed 2005-04-15 *
World Wide Words: chav, by Michael Quinion, accessed 2005-04-15 *
Posting by "Quizmonster" in The Answer Bank, 2005-02-22, accessed 2005-04-15 *
Posting by "Dick Jones" in FrizzyLogic, 2004-03-19, accessed 2005-04-15 *
"The Chavs are Coming", The Irish Times 2005-03-23, accessed 2005-04-15 * Bragg, M. 'The Adventure of English', London, Hodder and Stoughton, 2003: 26.