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chelps

chelps is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 chelps

What is chelps the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Chelps is the third-person singular simple present indicative of chelp.

Words near chelps in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chelps (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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