chappie
Americannoun
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chappies
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noun
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Origin of chappie
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Dan is a sort of cheeky chappie, always fun to be around.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2016
While still doing all the cheeky chappie stuff and still making cooking programmes and berating Michael Gove and banging on about people with big-screen TVs eating cheesy chips.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 22, 2014
The quintessential cheeky chappie turned his attention to cinema and, by the age of six, had his first film role, that of a cigar-smoking midget in Orchids and Ermine.
From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2014
He becomes a Max Miller cheeky chappie in a Donald McGill cartoon.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 27, 2013
“Yeah — he’s mine — bought him off a Greek chappie I met in the pub las’ year — I lent him to Dumbledore to guard the —” “Yes?” said Harry eagerly.
From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling
After World War I, the chappies set the stylistic tone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 2026
America is faced with overwhelming problems, the voters are deeply concerned about our future, and they’re happy little chappies in the cable news town hall.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2016
But our chappies can cope with the terrorists.
From Time Magazine Archive
Went to Gaiety; jolly supper, met Ben Allen and a lot of chappies, who are at Bart's and haven't any of these ridiculous Collegiate regulations, and had high old time.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, October 15th 1887 by Various
I suppose it seems rummy to you," I said, "but the fact is New York often bucks chappies up and makes them show a flash of speed that you wouldn't have imagined them capable of.
From My Man Jeeves by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
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