Chappe dとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

chapped (comparative more chapped, superlative most chapped)

1. (of skin) Dry and flaky due to excessive evaporation of water from its surface.

   Synonyms: cracked, rough

   • 1854, Sir Erasmus Wilson, Healthy skin: a popular treatise on the skin and hair, their preservation and management:

     For chapped lips, or chapped nipples, the tincture of catechu, or benjamin, […] / For severely chapped hands or face, the oxide of zinc ointment or camphor […]

   • 1913, Willa Cather, O Pioneers!:

     […] his nose and his chubby cheeks were chapped and red with cold.

   • 2019, Dave Eggers, The Parade, N.Y: Vintage Books, page 134:

     His lips were chapped and lined with a ghostly purple fringe.

2. (in combination) Having chaps, or jaws, of a specified kind.
   • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 1:

     This wide-chopt-raſcall, would thou mightſt lye drowning the waſhing of ten Tides.

派生語

動詞

chapped

1. simple past and past participle of chap

Further reading

• “chapped”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.