Word.ws English Dictionary

chappish

chappish adjective: like a chap; mannish, blokey.

Adjective

chappish (comparative more chappish, superlative most chappish)

  1. Like a chap; mannish, blokey.
    • She struck him as at once chappish and womanly.2023, Richard Flanagan, Question 7, Knopf, page 35

Forms of chappish

comparativemore chappish
superlativemost chappish

Origin of chappish

From chap + -ish.

Questions about chappish

What does chappish mean?
Chappish means like a chap; mannish, blokey.
What part of speech is chappish?
Chappish is an adjective.

Words near chappish in the dictionary

  1. chappettes
  2. chappie
  3. chappies
  4. chapping
  5. chapping someone's hide
  6. chappish
  7. Chappism
  8. Chappist
  9. Chappists
  10. Chapple
  11. Chapple Vale

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: chappish (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “chappish.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/chappish. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.