Hap vs Chap - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between hap and chap

is that hap is pah while 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).

As a verb chap is

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

hap

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) hap, . The verb is from (etyl) happen, from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

That which happens; an occurrence or happening, especially an unexpected, random, chance, or fortuitous event; chance; fortune; luck.

* 1599 , (William Shakespeare), (Much Ado About Nothing) ,

URSULA. She's lim'd, I warrant you: we have caught her, madam.

HERO. If it prove so, then loving goes by haps :

Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

* Spenser

whether art it was or heedless hap

* Sir Philip Sidney

Cursed be good haps', and cursed be they that build / Their hopes on ' haps .

* 1851 , :

He at once resolved to accompany me to that island, ship aboard the same vessel, get into the same watch, the same boat, the same mess with me, in short to share my every hap ; with both my hands in his, boldly dip into the Potluck of both worlds.

Derived terms

* hapful * haphazard * hapless * haply * happen * happenstance * happy * hapsome * mayhap * mishap * perhaps

Verb

(happ)

(literary) to happen; to befall; to chance.

(literary) To happen to.

Etymology 2

From (etyl)

Noun

(en noun)

(UK, Scotland, dialect) A wrap, such as a quilt or a comforter. Also, a small or folded blanket placed on the end of a bed to keep feet warm.

Verb

(happ)

(dialect) To wrap or clothe.

* Dr. J. Brown

The surgeon happed her up carefully.

Anagrams

* ----

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.