Chappy

Origin

chap + -y

Full definition of chappy

Noun

1. (British, informal) A chap; a fellow.

Adjective

1. Full of chaps; cleft; gaping; open.
2. (of skin, rare, perhaps archaic) Chapped, dry.
• 1939, in National Health Review, Volumes 7–9, page 220:The application was followed at once by terrible pain in the wound; furthermore, there appeared a dry and chappy tongue, intolerable thirst, colics, cramplike contractions of the legs and back, and a weak and irregular pulse.