chapess
nounEtymology From chap + -ess.
- My friends are the undergraduates, chaps and chapesses, and as long as I can pour good wine down their gullets and listen into the small hours […]1990, Samuel Gorley Putt, Wings of a Man's Life:
- […] so naturally, we simply couldn't afford to have chaps and chapesses tying the knot and then not having babies after all that fuss.2005, James Hawes, Speak for England:
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- Those revered as saints are usually very peculiar chaps and chapesses who succeeded in refusing life just short of actually killing themselves […]2006, Mark Simpson, Saint Morrissey: