chap家伙；老兄；男人

【使用地区】：美国，英国

【释义】：

A guy，fellow，man．A chapman was formerly a common term for a wandering peddler or merchant．Chap is simply an abbreviation of chapmana good chapman，or chap，became in time a good fellow．The word is sometimes heard in the United States．In the American Ozarks，however，chap is never used for an adult；there it means a male child usually and even a little girl occasionally．

此词意义如上所示。该词以前常用来指“流动小贩”或“商人”。chap只是chapman的缩写形式。a good chapman或chap后来变为了a good fellow。在美国有时也能听到该词的用法。但在美国欧扎克山区，这个词从来不用于成年人。在那儿，它有时指“男孩”，偶尔也指“小姑娘”。