单词 | boy chap |
释义 | > as lemmasboy chap boy chap n. English regional (south-western) a young, usually unmarried, male. ΚΠ 1872 T. Hardy Under Greenwood Tree I. iii. 116 He'd starve to death for music's sake now, as much as when he was a boy-chap of fifteen. 1939 F. Thompson Lark Rise 48 While the talking was going on, the few younger men, ‘boy-chaps’, as they were called until they were married, would not have taken a great part in it. 2004 Express & Echo (Exeter) (Nexis) 12 July 18 In the fifties, when I was a ‘boy chap’, I used to work in Exeter market. < as lemmas |
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