Feb 6, 2020 · However, 'chap' here is informal, just a less highbrow/remote replacement for 'person', and (from the context, which hints at say a Bertie-Wooster-like association) having a (dated) British upper …

Dec 7, 2012 · chap — " (British) fellow. Origin of chap: chapman" lad — "a male person of any age between early boyhood and maturity" So, it seems, that lad can be related only to a young person. …

Mar 26, 2023 · (Source: Can a woman be a chap?, Patricia T. O’Conner and Stewart Kellerman, Grammarphobia, 15 May 2019) Increasingly there is criticism of using potentially gendered terms …

Sep 4, 2023 · No. The standard abbreviations are Ch. and Chap. …or at least, if there is such a symbol, Unicode doesn’t know about it yet — and Unicode is pretty comprehensive, including characters as …

Sep 23, 2015 · Poor chap vs. poor woman [closed] Ask Question Asked 10 years, 2 months ago Modified 10 years, 2 months ago

By happenstance, I stumbled upon the words cha, char and chai in the dictionary today, all defined as meaning tea in informal British English. I lived and worked in London for some time, but never ...

@MichaelOwenSartin: To add to the wikipedia article "tally-ho" comes French taïaut or tayaut evolved from Middle French ta-ho formed from two onomatopœic words: ta that was the cry to stimulate the …

Calling a lady a bird was commonplace in the late 1900s. Now it's less so, but the British have a habit of reviving these types of words to use playfully, so people will say stuff like "no problem chap", despite …

If sistren is the female equivalent of brethren, what is the female equivalent of fellow? Words usually paired are: guy/gal; man/woman; boy/girl; lad/lass; brethren/sistren; fraternity/sorority; b...

Nov 10, 2014 · There are essentially two distinct and different uses. Former pupils of schools are sometimes known as 'Old Boys' and 'Old Girls'. David Cameron, the present Prime Minister is an Old …