Synonyms of the word

chap

• n. (dated outside Britain and Australia) A man, a fellow.
• n. (Britain, dialectal) A customer, a buyer.
• n. (Southern US) A child.
• v. (intransitive) Of the skin, to split or flake due to cold weather or dryness.
• v. (transitive) To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.
• v. (Scotland, Northern England) To strike, knock.
• n. A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.
• n. (obsolete) A division; a breach, as in a party.
• n. (Scotland) A blow; a rap.
• n. (archaic) The jaw (often in plural).
• n. One of the jaws or cheeks of a vice, etc.

blighter

• n. One who blights.
• n. (Britain, often disrespectful) A person, usually male, especially one who behaves in an objectionable…

cleft

• n. An opening, fissure, or V-shaped indentation made by or as if by splitting.
• n. A piece made by splitting.
• n. A disease of horses; a crack on the band of the pastern.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of cleave.

crack

• v. (intransitive) To form cracks.
• v. (intransitive) To break apart under pressure.
• v. (intransitive) To become debilitated by psychological pressure.
• v. (intransitive) To break down or yield, especially under interrogation or torture.
• v. (intransitive) To make a cracking sound.
• v. (intransitive, of a voice) To change rapidly in register.
• v. (intransitive, of a pubescent boy's voice) To alternate between high and low register in the process of…
• v. (intransitive) To make a sharply humorous comment.
• v. (transitive) To make a crack or cracks in.
• v. (transitive) To break open or crush to small pieces by impact or stress.
• v. (transitive) To strike forcefully.
• v. (transitive) To open slightly.
• v. (transitive) To cause to yield under interrogation or other pressure. (Figurative).
• v. (transitive) To solve a difficult problem. (Figurative, from cracking a nut.).
• v. (transitive) To overcome a security system or a component.
• v. (transitive) To cause to make a sharp sound.
• v. (transitive) To tell (a joke).
• v. (transitive, chemistry, informal) To break down (a complex molecule), especially with the application…
• v. (transitive, computing) To circumvent software restrictions such as regional coding or time limits.
• v. (transitive, informal) To open a canned beverage, or any packaged drink or food.
• v. (obsolete) To brag, boast.
• v. (archaic, colloquial) To be ruined or impaired; to fail.
• n. A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.
• n. A narrow opening.
• n. A sharply humorous comment; a wisecrack.
• n. A potent, relatively cheap, addictive variety of cocaine; often a rock, usually smoked through a crack-pipe.
• n. (onomatopoeia) The sharp sound made when solid material breaks.
• n. (onomatopoeia) Any sharp sound.
• n. (informal) An attempt at something.
• n. (vulgar, slang) vagina.
• n. (informal) The space between the buttocks.
• n. (Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) Conviviality; fun; good conversation, chat, gossip, or humorous…
• n. (Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) Business/events/news.
• n. (computing) A program or procedure designed to circumvent restrictions or usage limits on software.
• n. (Cumbria, elsewhere throughout the North of the UK) a meaningful chat.
• n. (Internet slang) Extremely silly, absurd or off-the-wall ideas or prose.
• n. The tone of voice when changed at puberty.
• n. (archaic) A mental flaw; a touch of craziness; partial insanity.
• n. (archaic) A crazy or crack-brained person.
• n. (obsolete) A boast; boasting.
• n. (obsolete) Breach of chastity.
• n. (obsolete) A boy, generally a pert, lively boy.
• n. (slang, dated, Britain) A brief time; an instant; a jiffy.
• adj. Highly trained and competent.
• adj. Excellent, first-rate, superior, top-notch.

cranny

• n. A small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink, as in a wall, or other substance.
• n. A tool for forming the necks of bottles, etc.
• v. (intransitive) To break into, or become full of, crannies.
• v. (intransitive) To haunt or enter by crannies.
• adj. (Britain, dialect) quick; giddy; thoughtless.

crevice

• n. A narrow crack or fissure, as in a rock or wall.
• v. To crack; to flaw.

cuss

• v. (chiefly US) To use cursing, to use bad language, to speak profanely.
• n. (chiefly US) A curse.
• n. (chiefly US) A curse word.
• n. (dated, chiefly US) A fellow, person.

depression

• n. (psychology) In psychotherapy and psychiatry, a state of mind producing serious, long-term lowering of…
• n. (geography) An area that is lower in topography than its surroundings.
• n. (psychology) In psychotherapy and psychiatry, a period of unhappiness or low morale which lasts longer…
• n. (meteorology) An area of lowered air pressure that generally brings moist weather, sometimes promoting…
• n. (economics) A period of major economic contraction.
• n. (economics, US) Four consecutive quarters of negative, real GDP growth. See NBER.
• n. (biology, physiology) A lowering, in particular a reduction in a particular biological variable or the…

fella

• n. Eye dialect spelling of fellow.
• n. (informal) used to address a male.

feller

• n. A person who fells trees; a lumberjack.
• n. A machine for felling trees.
• n. An appliance to a sewing machine for felling a seam.
• n. Eye dialect spelling of fellow.
• adj. (archaic) comparative form of fell: more fell.

fellow

• n. (obsolete) A colleague or partner.
• n. (archaic) A companion; a comrade.
• n. A man without good breeding or worth; an ignoble or mean man.
• n. An equal in power, rank, character, etc.
• n. One of a pair, or of two things used together or suited to each other; a mate.
• n. (colloquial) A male person; a man.
• n. (rare) A person; an individual, male or female.
• n. (heading) A rank or title in the professional world, usually given as "Fellow".
• adj. Having common characteristics; being of the same kind, or in the same group.
• v. To suit with; to pair with; to match.

fissure

• n. A crack or opening, as in a rock.
• n. (anatomy) A groove, deep furrow, elongated cleft, or tear; a sulcus.
• v. To split, forming fissures.

gent

• n. (colloquial) A gentleman.
• adj. (obsolete) Noble; well-bred, courteous; graceful.
• adj. (obsolete) neat; pretty; elegant.

impression

• n. The indentation or depression made by the pressure of one object on or into another.
• n. The overall effect of something, e.g., on a person.
• n. A vague recalling of an event, a belief.
• n. An impersonation, an imitation of the mannerisms of another individual.
• n. An outward appearance.
• n. (advertising) An online advertising performance metric representing an instance where an ad. is shown…
• n. (painting) The first coat of colour, such as the priming in house-painting etc.
• n. (engraving) A print on paper from a wood block, metal plate, etc.

imprint

• n. An impression; the mark left behind by printing something.
• n. The name and details of a publisher or printer, as printed in a book etc.; a publishing house.
• n. A distinctive marking, symbol or logo.
• v. To leave a print, impression, image, etc.
• v. To learn something indelibly at a particular stage of life, such as who one's parents are.
• v. To mark a gene as being from a particular parent so that only one of the two copies of the gene is expressed.

lad

• n. A boy or young man.
• n. (Britain) A Jack the lad; a boyo.
• n. A familiar term of address for a young man.
• n. A groom who works with horses (also called stable-lad).
• n. (Ireland) A penis.

legging

• n. A covering, usually of leather, worn from knee to ankle.
• n. Tight fitting leg coverings worn, for example, to gym.
• n. One of the legs of a pair of trousers.
• n. The process of putting a series of three or more options strikes into the stock market.
• v. present participle of leg.

male

• adj. Belonging to the sex which has testes and/or XY chromosomes.
• adj. Belonging to the masculine gender (social category).
• adj. (biology) Typical of, or typically found in, the male of a species.
• adj. (grammar, less common than 'masculine') Masculine; of the masculine grammatical gender.
• adj. (figuratively) Of instruments, tools, or connectors: designed to fit into or penetrate a female counterpart,…
• n. One of the male (masculine) sex or gender.

scissure

• n. A longitudinal opening made by cutting; a cleft; a fissure.