Chap vs. Dog

Chapnoun

A man, a fellow.

‘Who’s that chap over there?’;

Dognoun

A mammal, Canis lupus familiaris, that has been domesticated for thousands of years, of highly variable appearance due to human breeding.

‘The dog barked all night long.’;

Chapnoun

A customer, a buyer.

Dognoun

A male dog, wolf or fox, as opposed to a bitch (often attributive).

Chapnoun

(Southern US) A child.

Dognoun

A dull, unattractive girl or woman.

‘She’s a real dog.’;

Chapnoun

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

Dognoun

(slang) A man (derived from definition 2).

‘You lucky dog!’; ‘He's a silly dog.’;

Chapnoun

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

Dognoun

A coward.

‘Come back and fight, you dogs!’;

Chapnoun

(Scotland) A blow; a rap.

Dognoun

(derogatory) Someone who is morally reprehensible.

‘You dirty dog.’;

Chapnoun

The jaw.

Dognoun

(slang) A sexually aggressive man (cf. horny).

Chapnoun

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

Dognoun

Any of various mechanical devices for holding, gripping, or fastening something, particularly with a tooth-like projection.

Chapverb

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

Dognoun

A click or pallet adapted to engage the teeth of a ratchet-wheel, to restrain the back action; a click or pawl. (See also: ratchet, windlass)

Chapverb

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

Dognoun

A metal support for logs in a fireplace.

‘The dogs were too hot to touch.’;

Chapverb

To strike, knock.

Dognoun

(cartomancy) The eighteenth Lenormand card.

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.’;

Dognoun

A hot dog.

Chapverb

To strike; to beat.

Dognoun

Underdog.

Chapverb

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

Dognoun

Foot.

Chapverb

To strike; to knock; to rap.

Dognoun

(Cockney rhyming slang) (from "dog and bone") Phone or mobile phone.

Chapverb

To bargain; to buy.

Dognoun

One of the cones used to divide up a racetrack when training horses.

Chapnoun

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

Dogverb

(transitive) To pursue with the intent to catch.

Chapnoun

A division; a breach, as in a party.

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

Dogverb

(transitive) To follow in an annoying or harassing way.

‘The woman cursed him so that trouble would dog his every step.’;

Chapnoun

A blow; a rap.

Dogverb

To fasten a hatch securely.

‘It is very important to dog down these hatches...’;

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.’;

Dogverb

To watch, or participate, in sexual activity in a public place.

‘I admit that I like to dog at my local country park.’;

Chapnoun

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

Dogverb

To intentionally restrict one's productivity as employee; to work at the slowest rate that goes unpunished.

‘A surprise inspection of the night shift found that some workers were dogging it.’;

Chapnoun

A buyer; a chapman.

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

Dognoun

A quadruped of the genus Canis, esp. the domestic dog (Canis familiaris).

Chapnoun

A man or boy; a youth; a fellow.

Dognoun

A mean, worthless fellow; a wretch.

‘What is thy servant, which is but a dog, that he should do this great thing?’;

Chapnoun

a boy or man;

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

Dognoun

A fellow; - used humorously or contemptuously; as, a sly dog; a lazy dog.

Chapnoun

a long narrow depression in a surface

Dognoun

One of the two constellations, Canis Major and Canis Minor, or the Greater Dog and the Lesser Dog. Canis Major contains the Dog Star (Sirius).

Chapnoun

a crack in a lip caused usually by cold

Dognoun

An iron for holding wood in a fireplace; a firedog; an andiron.

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

Dognoun

A grappling iron, with a claw or claws, for fastening into wood or other heavy articles, for the purpose of raising or moving them.

Chapverb

crack due to dehydration;

‘My lips chap in this dry weather’;

Dognoun

an ugly or crude person, especially an ugly woman.

Dognoun

a hot dog.

Dogverb

To hunt or track like a hound; to follow insidiously or indefatigably; to chase with a dog or dogs; to worry, as if by dogs; to hound with importunity.

‘I have been pursued, dogged, and waylaid.’; ‘Your sins will dog you, pursue you.’; ‘Eager ill-bred petitioners, who do not so properly supplicate as hunt the person whom they address to, dogging him from place to place, till they even extort an answer to their rude requests.’;

Dognoun

a member of the genus Canis (probably descended from the common wolf) that has been domesticated by man since prehistoric times; occurs in many breeds;

‘the dog barked all night’;

Dognoun

a dull unattractive unpleasant girl or woman;

‘she got a reputation as a frump’; ‘she's a real dog’;

Dognoun

informal term for a man;

‘you lucky dog’;

Dognoun

someone who is morally reprehensible;

‘you dirty dog’;

Dognoun

a smooth-textured sausage of minced beef or pork usually smoked; often served on a bread roll

Dognoun

a hinged catch that fits into a notch of a ratchet to move a wheel forward or prevent it from moving backward

Dognoun

metal supports for logs in a fireplace;

‘the andirons were too hot to touch’;

Dogverb

go after with the intent to catch;

‘The policeman chased the mugger down the alley’; ‘the dog chased the rabbit’;

Dog

The domestic dog (Canis familiaris or Canis lupus familiaris) is a domesticated descendant of the wolf. The dog derived from an ancient, extinct wolf, and the modern grey wolf is the dog's nearest living relative.