English
Noun
chappy (plural chappies)
- (Britain, informal) A chap; a fellow.
Synonyms
Adjective
chappy (comparative more chappy, superlative most chappy)
- Full of chaps; cleft; gaping; open.
- (of skin, rare, perhaps archaic) Chapped, dry.
- 1939, in National Health Review, Volumes 7–9, page 220:
- The application was followed at once by terrible pain in the wound; furthermore, there appeared a dry and chappy tongue, intolerable thirst, colics, cramplike contractions of the legs and back, and a weak and irregular pulse.