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plural chappies
(Britain, informal) A chap; a fellow. examples
comparative more chappy, superlative most chappy
Full of chaps; cleft; gaping; open. examples
(of skin, rare, perhaps archaic) Chapped, dry. quotations
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.
1939, National Health Review, volumes 7–9, page 220