Meanings
plural chappies
- alternativeAlternative spelling of chappy.
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Now Henry knows dead cert he′s in for a stoush, but Snake-hips says he should go with him, and out on Nymagee-street Henry Lawson refuses a twenty-pound note, and the two men shake and Henry accepts the next billiards game, doubles with Snake-hips (who plays even worse than Henry), the Minister for Public Instruction, and the Austrian chappie.
2006, Pip Wilson, Faces in the Street: Louisa and Henry Lawson and the Castlereagh Street Push, page 200
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chappie. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chappie
“chappie.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chappie. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “chappie,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chappie.
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