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chelped

chelped is the simple past and past participle of chelp.

Meaning of chelp

Verb

chelp (third-person singular simple present chelps, present participle chelping, simple past and past participle chelped)

  1. (Northern England, intransitive) To gossip, particularly in a forthright manner.
    • He's not here so we are chelping in the staffroom and ignoring the to-do list on the board.
  2. (Northern England, intransitive) To speak rudely or out of turn.
    • The teacher got angry at all her chelping.

Questions about chelped

What is chelped the simple past and past participle of?
Chelped is the simple past and past participle of chelp.

Words near chelped in the dictionary

  1. chelonology
  2. Chelosauria lovelli
  3. chelotropic
  4. chelow
  5. chelp
  6. chelped
  7. chelping
  8. chelps
  9. Chels
  10. Chelsea
  11. Chelsea boot

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chelped (page history and authors); chelp (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.

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