What does "Chap" when it describes a person? [closed]
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 …
What's the difference between "bloke", "chap" and "lad"?
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. …
meaning - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
Dec 7, 2014 · The word "rummun," as WS2 observes in his answer, is found occasionally in the writings of the famous veterinarian/author James Herriot, who spent decades tending to …
single word requests - Feminine Forms for chaps and blokes
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 …
Is it offensive to refer to someone as a bird? [closed]
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 …
Is there a standard symbol for denoting a chapter in a citation?
Sep 4, 2023 · 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 …
What exactly does "tally ho" mean? - English Language & Usage …
I heard this tally ho in a youtube video (British). I also heard it in the movies "Jack the Giant Slayer", and "Spiderman 1". I understand it's some kind of expression or exclamation or idiom …
single word requests - Female equivalent of "fellow" - English …
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...
Comma usage after the words well done [closed]
Do I need to put a comma after done in the sentence Well done indeed!
Where does "my ass" come from? - English Language & Usage …
The usage of my ass to mean me is now relatively common. My impression is that it originated from AAVE and has since been included in various other dialects. The NGram below implies it …