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chappie en · NOUN

Etymology

From chap + -ie.

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative spelling of chappy.
    alt of chappy
    • Now Henry knows dead cert he′s in for a stoush, but Snake-hips says he should go with him, and out on Nymagee-street Henry Lawson refuses a twenty-pound note, and the two men shake and Henry accepts the next billiards game, doubles with Snake-hips (who plays even worse than Henry), the Minister for Public Instruction, and the Austrian chappie. 2006, Pip Wilson, Faces in the Street: Louisa and Henry Lawson and the Castlereagh Street Push, page 200:

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chappies Number=Plur lexicographic