chappie
Americannoun
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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
One cheeky chappie in the Russian blogosphere took my original image and cut-and-pasted a portrait of the two leaders on to the wall above the loos.
From BBC • Jan. 23, 2014
He becomes a Max Miller cheeky chappie in a Donald McGill cartoon.
From The Guardian • Apr. 27, 2013
“You have your RAF chappie wearing a beret. I really don’t think so. Outside the Tank Corps, even the army didn’t have them in 1940. I think you’d better give the man a forage cap.”
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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