单词 | chaps me that! |
释义 | > as lemmaschaps me that! 8. To choose, select, bespeak; to fix upon as one's choice. chaps me that! the call of children in laying claim to anything, equivalent to the Lancashire barley (or balla) me! and English schoolboy's bags I. (Hence Galt's incorrect ‘I'll chapse’.) ΚΠ 1720 A. Ramsay Edinb.'s Salut. to Ld. Carnarvon iv You's hae at will to chap and chuse, For few things am I scant in. a1806 in R. Jamieson Pop. Ballads I. 299 (Jam.) ‘Hech, husto!’ quo' Habbie, ‘I chaps ye.’ 1823 J. Galt Entail I. xix. 162 ‘I'll chapse that place,’ said Walter. < as lemmas |
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