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Whats the difference between bloke, chap and lad? chap — "(British) fellow Origin of chap: chapman" lad — "a male person of any age between early boyhood and maturity" So, it seems, that lad can be related only to a young person While chap and bloke to any male person My British fellow said: Chap is more delicate; bloke is rougher a bit Chap is posh, bloke is common
What does Chap when it describes a person? [closed] However, 'chap' here is informal, just a less highbrow remote replacement for 'person', and (from the context, which hints at say a Bertie-Wooster-like association) having a (dated) British upper-class connection
Feminine Forms for chaps and blokes [duplicate] The British armed forces, specifically the Joint Equality Diversity and Inclusion unit at the Defence Academy in Shrivenham, Oxfordshire, recommend "people, folks, friends or you all", rather than "chaps" or "guys" (Source: Can a woman be a chap?, Patricia T O’Conner and Stewart Kellerman, Grammarphobia, 15 May 2019)
Is there a standard symbol for denoting a chapter in a citation? The standard abbreviations are Ch and Chap …or at least, if there is such a symbol, Unicode doesn’t know about it yet — and Unicode is pretty comprehensive, including characters as diverse as the inverted interrobang ⸘, biohazard sign ☣, and snowman ☃, not to mention the Shavian alphabet and much, much, much more
What exactly does tally ho mean? - English Language Usage Stack . . . Stack Exchange Network Stack Exchange network consists of 183 Q A communities including Stack Overflow, the largest, most trusted online community for developers to learn, share their knowledge, and build their careers
Whats the origin of the idiom bust ones chops? "Chop" just literally means jaws, or sides of one's face It's the second noun definition for "chop" in the OED Its usage extends back to the early 16th century Its etymology is from "chap," which is a jawbone, and an ever older word So, the phrase is literal: "Don't bust my chops," means "don't hit me in the jaw "
Comma usage after the words well done [closed] Stack Exchange Network Stack Exchange network consists of 183 Q A communities including Stack Overflow, the largest, most trusted online community for developers to learn, share their knowledge, and build their careers
What is a feminine version of guys? From all the answers, it's clear that using a masculine term (eg "guys") is considered sexist (see Leopd's comment), and using a feminine term (eg "gals") is also considered sexist (see The Raven's answer)