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chapless

Meaning of "chapless" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF CHAPLESS

ˈtʃæplɪs


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CHAPLESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Chapless is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES CHAPLESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of chapless in the English dictionary

The definition of chapless in the dictionary is lacking a lower jaw.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CHAPLESS

accomplice · complice · dripless · escapeless · gapless · hapless · helpless · hopeless · mapless · pulpless · sapless · shapeless · sleepless · soapless · stampless · strapless · surplice · tapeless · topless · zipless

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CHAPLESS

chaperon · chaperonage · chaperone · chapess · chapfallen · chapiter · chaplain · chaplaincy · chaplainry · chaplainship · chaplet · chapleted · Chaplin · Chaplinesque · chapman · Chapman Stick · chapmanship · chapmen · chappal · chapped

WORDS THAT END LIKE CHAPLESS

bottomless · capless · cropless · flapless · hipless · hoopless · humpless · lipless · napless · pipless · rumpless · scalpless · shipless · slipless · snapless · soupless · stopless · tipless · trumpless · whelpless · worshipless

Synonyms and antonyms of chapless in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «chapless» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CHAPLESS

Find out the translation of chapless to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of chapless from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «chapless» in English.
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chapless
1,325 millions of speakers
es

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chapless
570 millions of speakers
en

English

chapless
510 millions of speakers
hi

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chapless
380 millions of speakers
ar

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chapless
280 millions of speakers
ru

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chapless
278 millions of speakers
pt

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chapless
270 millions of speakers
bn

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chapless
260 millions of speakers
fr

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chapless
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Chapless
190 millions of speakers
de

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chapless
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

chapless
130 millions of speakers
ko

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chapless
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Chapless
85 millions of speakers
vi

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chapless
80 millions of speakers
ta

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chapless
75 millions of speakers
mr

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अविचारी
75 millions of speakers
tr

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chapless
70 millions of speakers
it

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chapless
65 millions of speakers
pl

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chapless
50 millions of speakers
uk

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chapless
40 millions of speakers
ro

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chapless
30 millions of speakers
el

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chapless
15 millions of speakers
af

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chapless
14 millions of speakers
sv

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chapless
10 millions of speakers
no

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chapless
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of chapless

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CHAPLESS»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about chapless

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CHAPLESS»

Discover the use of chapless in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to chapless and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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A Dictionary of the Language of Shakespeare
Chapless. Without lips. Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house, O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones, With reeky shanks, and yellow chapless skulls. Romeo and Juliet, iv. 1. Why, e'en so : and now my Lady Worm's; chapless, and ...
Swynfen Jervis, 1868
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A Synoptic Hamlet: a Critical-Synoptic Edition of the Second ...
Did these bones cost no more the breeding but 3282 3283 85 chopless, and knocked about the <mazard> with a sexton's chapless, ma/ard spade. Here's fine revolution, an we had the trick to 90 to play at loggats with ."., Mine ache to think on t ...
Jesús Tronch, William Shakespeare, 2002
3
Hamlet
91. chapless: without a lower jaw (See picture, below.) mazard: head (a slang term) 94. loggets: a game played by throwing pieces of wood at a stake 101. quiddities: hair-splitting definitions 102. quillities: quibbles; tenures: holdings 103.
William Shakespeare, Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine, 2012
4
The Struggle for Shakespeare's Text: Twentieth-Century ...
Juliet means chapless skulls, ones without lips, but is the Q2 reading merely an error of transposition, chapels for chaples? Walker pointed out that it could not be since the compositor consistently used -lesse spellings in setting this edition, ...
Gabriel Egan, 2010
5
Romeo and Juliet: Language and Writing
Picking up a skull in the graveyard, Hamlet describes it as 'My Lady Worm's, chapless'; soon afterwards he mocks Yorick's skull: 'Quite chopfallen' (Folio Hamlet, 5.1.87–8; 190). The compound 'chapless' appears to have been Shakespeare's ...
Catherine Belsey, 2014
6
The Complete Romeo and Juliet: An Annotated Edition of the ...
83 O'er-covered quite with dead men's rattling, bones O'ercovered quite: “entirely covered up” (Mowat, 182) 84 With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls; Reeky: “emitting foul vapor”; chapless: “without lower jaws” (Riverside, 1,130) 85 Or ...
Donald J. Richardson, 2013
7
Hamlet
This might be my lord such-a-one , that praised my lord such-a-one's horse , when he meant to beg it, might it not? Hor. Ay, my lord. Ham. Why, e'en so, and now my lady Worm's; chapless, and knocked about the mazzard with a sexton's spade ...
William Shakespeare, 1843
8
Textual and Literary Criticism
She observed that the Second Quarto had the misprint c-h-a-p-e-l-s for the word chapless, or, 'without lips'. She then pointed out that the compositor of this quarto (actually two compositors, as we now know) was an -esse speller and therefore ...
Fredson Bowers, 1966
9
The Complete Hamlet: An Annotated Edition of the Shakespeare ...
HAMLET 87 Why, e'en so: and now my Lady Worrn's; chapless, and Chapless: “ lacking the lower jaw” (Barnet, 122) 88 knocked about the mazzard with a sexton's spade: Mazzard: “head” (Barnet, 122) 89 here's fine revolution, an we had the ...
Donald J. Richardson, 2012
10
Romeo and Juliet
83 *chapless lacking the lower jaw. Q2 'chapels' may have been influenced by a misunderstanding of the Q1 form 'chaples' (I chapless). 85 *shroud grave-clothes. Word omitted in Q2—3; supplied from Q4. Compare 4.3.42—3; 5.3.97.
William Shakespeare, G. Blakemore Evans, 2003

4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CHAPLESS»

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1
The 50 Best Songs of 2014
... has never been more prolific, and now that means he's accepted that his partying, philandering, chapless-buttcheek-ing days are behind him. «Paste Magazine, Dec 14»
2
The Future of Our Gay Neighborhoods
... where gay men can walk down the street wearing chapless trousers in peace, and where lesbians can get their bikes fixed by other lesbians. «VICE, Sep 14»
3
Jessie J at Q Awards 2011 fashion verdict: Upmarket greebo look is …
Moving on to her striking chapless-effect bodysuit, let's move on again as quickly as possible. Mock-burlesque chic is so Dita von Teese four ... «Mirror.co.uk, Oct 11»
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Seeking a post-gender society
In the role of Chapless Charlie, dancing on stage with his friends in the troupe, Charlie is able to express his true sense of self. If a transgender ... «Michigan Daily, Feb 09»
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