Boy vs. Chap

Boynoun

A young male, particularly

‘Kate is dating a boy named Jim.’;

Chapnoun

A man, a fellow.

‘Who’s that chap over there?’;

Boynoun

A male child or teenager, as distinguished from infants or adults.

Chapnoun

A customer, a buyer.

Boynoun

(diminutive) A male child: a son of any age.

Chapnoun

(Southern US) A child.

Boynoun

A male of any age, particularly one rather younger than the speaker.

Chapnoun

A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.

Boynoun

(obsolete) A male of low station, (especially as pejorative) a worthless male, a wretch; a mean and dishonest male, a knave.

Chapnoun

(obsolete) A division; a breach, as in a party.

Boynoun

A male servant, slave, assistant, or employee, particularly:

Chapnoun

(Scotland) A blow; a rap.

Boynoun

A younger such worker.

Chapnoun

The jaw.

Boynoun

A non-white male servant regardless of age, particularly as a form of address.

Chapnoun

One of the jaws or cheeks of a vice, etc.

Boynoun

(obsolete) A male camp follower.

Chapverb

(intransitive) Of the skin, to split or flake due to cold weather or dryness.

Boynoun

Any non-white male, regardless of age.

Chapverb

(transitive) To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.

Boynoun

A male animal, especially, in affectionate address, a male dog.

‘C'mere, boy! Good boy! Who's a good boy?’; ‘Are you getting a boy cat or a girl cat?’;

Chapverb

To strike, knock.

Boynoun

A former low rank of various armed services; a holder of this rank.

Chapverb

To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.

‘Then would unbalanced heat licentious reign,Crack the dry hill, and chap the russet plain.’; ‘Nor winter's blast chap her fair face.’;

Boynoun

Heroin.

Chapverb

To strike; to beat.

Boyinterjection

Exclamation of surprise, pleasure or longing.

‘Boy, that was close!’; ‘Boy, that tastes good!’; ‘Boy, I wish I could go to Canada!’;

Chapverb

To crack or open in slits; as, the earth chaps; the hands chap.

Boyverb

to use the word boy to refer to someone

‘Don't boy me!’;

Chapverb

To strike; to knock; to rap.

Boyverb

(transitive) to act as a boy in allusion to the former practice of boys acting women's parts on the stage

Chapverb

To bargain; to buy.

Boynoun

A male child, from birth to the age of puberty; a lad; hence, a son.

‘My only boy fell by the side of great Dundee.’;

Chapnoun

A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.

Boynoun

In various countries, a male servant, laborer, or slave of a native or inferior race; also, any man of such a race; - considered derogatory by those so called, and now seldom used.

‘He reverted again and again to the labor difficulty, and spoke of importing boys from Capetown.’;

Chapnoun

A division; a breach, as in a party.

‘Many clefts and chaps in our council board.’;

Boyverb

To act as a boy; - in allusion to the former practice of boys acting women's parts on the stage.

‘I shall seeSome squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness.’;

Chapnoun

A blow; a rap.

Boynoun

a youthful male person;

‘the baby was a boy’; ‘she made the boy brush his teeth every night’; ‘most soldiers are only boys in uniform’;

Chapnoun

One of the jaws or the fleshy covering of a jaw; - commonly in the plural, and used of animals, and colloquially of human beings.

‘His chaps were all besmeared with crimson blood.’; ‘He unseamed him [Macdonald] from the nave to the chaps.’;

Boynoun

a friendly informal reference to a grown man;

‘he likes to play golf with the boys’;

Chapnoun

One of the jaws or cheeks of a vise, etc.

Boynoun

a male human offspring;

‘their son became a famous judge’; ‘his boy is taller than he is’;

Chapnoun

A buyer; a chapman.

‘If you want to sell, here is your chap.’;

Boynoun

(ethnic slur) offensive term for Black man;

‘get out of my way, boy’;

Chapnoun

A man or boy; a youth; a fellow.

Boy

A boy is a young male human. The term is usually used for a child or an adolescent.

Chapnoun

a boy or man;

‘that chap is your host’; ‘there's a fellow at the door’; ‘he's a likable cuss’;

Chapnoun

a long narrow depression in a surface

Chapnoun

a crack in a lip caused usually by cold

Chapnoun

(usually in the plural) leather leggings without a seat; joined by a belt; often have flared outer flaps; worn over trousers by cowboys to protect their legs

Chapverb

crack due to dehydration;

‘My lips chap in this dry weather’;