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Chap

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1716, OED Evaluation: Colloquial

‘Customer’, fellow, lad.

ExampleMeaning
Well, it was- it- well ah, actually it was because of a chap in Haliburton Dale-Jeremy who was president of the legion at the time. And he really wanted to play band in the legion.
Man or boy
Now the- the- they didn't get their land from the Canadian-Land-and-Immigration-Company. There was a chap named Regis-Brockman actually owned it and he- they bought from him but ah- but there's like there was four boys and I-think five girls.
Man or boy
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About two days after I made that decision, I got a phone call from Toronto and chap that li-- grew up here and- and still has property here, he said, "So-and-so just sent me ah um ah program for a Calithumpian-Parade." He said, "I'm going to bring it up to you this weekend."
Man or boy
ss it's (inc)? <028> Ah I'm thinking of two chaps in particular that know it- it almost seems as th
Man or boy
They're retiring back here now. The chap across the road worked at G-M. And chap down the raod worked at G-M and- you-know? But they- they left and- but this is still home to them.
Man or boy
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There was one little chap. I think he was the grade-five. Ah, literally didn't say a word to me all year long. I couldn't get him to communicate. There were two or three in grade-one. The grade-six, sevens and eights were pretty bright.
Man or boy
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Ah, Jackie and I ah- she fell downstairs. She lived over at garage and she fell down outside on the stairs. So we- she called ah (inc) chap called from the- when he found out what happened.
Man or boy
And they were all at- out at the Cedar's. We'd been at carp fair, this other chap and him and I wasn't getting along, we were fighting like cats and dogs.
Man or boy
So anyway, he come up about- oh I-guess about one-o'clock, I'm just doing the dishes and ah this other chap that was chasing me around, that I told him buzz off the night before, he drove up to the front door.
Man or boy
So this chap in and he said, "Lady," he said, "You're not standing up," Well I said, "I'm only- I'd-" little wee glass of this- looked like eggnog but it was brown.
Man or boy
So we come back up in there (laughs). We come to this little pub and I don't drink, like I-mean a-- they- they (inc) this chap said, they- we went in and they were sitting there the- the three of them and I was sitting, standing up because I- there was no place to sit, this little pub.
Man or boy
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So she- she got the best mark (laughs) in school for interviewing Reg-Burton. But he was a teacher prior to being ah- ah painter but he was good friends with um another chap, Lester-Gordan and that's how we became friends with Reg-Burton.
Man or boy
You know what, I don't take a very good picture for the- do you realize that that county-echo in the Minden-Times that um it was started by Wesley-Nuse from Minden that the originally county-echo started actually in- was from a le-- chap from Minden that started that.
Man or boy
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And in nineteen-thirty-six, Dad was working for a chap in Canton. And ah, he had a big orchard.
Man or boy
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And new things were happening and one-thing-another, so I ah, just decided that Sammy and I wanted to do a bit of travelling you-know? But anyway, I-guess I was home a year and um, the bank manager and his wife ah, bought- and another chap bought the bakeshop where the Chinese foods place is now...
Man or boy
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But litt-- little details, little fine tunings like that. I remem-- I remember a chap named Mark-McCramer, was working at the Cedarhurst-Farm, put an addition on. And I asked him where he wanted the load. He said, "Well, I wanted sitting here, close to the house as you can."
Man or boy
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...when I was one year old and I was the youngest of five, four girls and one boy, ah, w-- they- the chap who lived next door came back from the First-World-War and he came to visit my dad and mother.
Man or boy
And he said, "At church yesterday, the chap said 'well, the war is over, I don't need to keep this farm, I put up the business.'" And you-know they used to keep a farm so that they've- their own sons didn't have to go to...
Man or boy
So they were walking on the platform at- at the- at the station and when dad told this friend of his, and why he was- why he was looking for a farm and what he- the- the main thing was to have a high-school there. Well, the chap said, this is maybe a little- a little- what did he say? (inc) but he said, "Don't move, Don,"
Man or boy
Speaker: Yeah, the Five-Span-Bridge. Right on that bridge, they met a- a chap that lived in Pakenham, he was just walking but dad has shantied with him. Interviewer: He did what? Speaker: He had- he had shantied with him in- in- in their young days.
Man or boy