chapped
adj/t͡ʃæpt/
1
Of skin Dry and flaky due to excessive evaporation of water from its surface.
- For chapped lips, or chapped nipples, the tincture of catechu, or benjamin, […] / For severely chapped hands or face, the oxide of zinc ointment or camphor […]1854, Sir Erasmus Wilson, Healthy skin: a popular treatise on the skin and hair, their preservation and management:
- […] his nose and his chubby cheeks were chapped and red with cold.1913, Willa Cather, O Pioneers!:
1 more example
- His lips were chapped and lined with a ghostly purple fringe.2019, Dave Eggers, The Parade, N.Y: Vintage Books, page 134:
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In compounds Having chaps, or jaws, of a specified kind.
- This wide-chopt-raſcall, would thou mightſt lye drowning the waſhing of ten Tides.1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 1:
- Derived terms
- unchapped, windchapped