yap
See also: Yap
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
yap (countable and uncountable, plural yaps)
- (countable) The high-pitched bark of a small dog, or similar.
- (uncountable, slang) Casual talk; chatter.
- 1939, Philip George Chadwick, The Death Guard, page 59:
- Had I taken his accusations seriously I might have recommended a change in my under-managership, but I never could translate our jammy products into gas or explosives or even poison. Still yap, at least as concerned Beldite's.
- 1989, H. T. Willetts (translator), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (author), August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 190:
- They couldn’t rise above their calls for peace. Those who weren’t “defenders of the fatherland” were incapable of anything except yap and blather about “stopping the war.”
- 1939, Philip George Chadwick, The Death Guard, page 59:
- (countable, slang, derogatory) The mouth, which produces speech.
- Shut your yap!
- (countable, Tyneside) A badly behaved child; a brat.
TranslationsEdit
high-pitched bark
ReferencesEdit
- The New Geordie Dictionary, Frank Graham, 1987, →ISBN
VerbEdit
yap (third-person singular simple present yaps, present participle yapping, simple past and past participle yapped)
- (intransitive) Of a small dog, to bark.
- (intransitive, slang) To talk, especially excessively; to chatter.
- You’re always yapping - I wish you’d shut up.
- (transitive, slang) To rob or steal from (someone).
- 2000, M.O.P., Ante Up:
- Ante up! Yap that fool!
TranslationsEdit
of a small dog, to bark
slang: to talk, especially excessively
AnagramsEdit
CatawbaEdit
NounEdit
yap
Usage notesEdit
The word is also represented ya, yop, ya’p, yo’p.
DescendantsEdit
- English: yaupon
FinnishEdit
NounEdit
yap
- Yapese (Austronesian language spoken in the Federated States of Micronesia, especially by the inhabitants of Yap)
DeclensionEdit
Inflection of yap (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | yap | — | |
genitive | yapin | — | |
partitive | yapia | — | |
illative | yapiin | — | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | yap | — | |
accusative | nom. | yap | — |
gen. | yapin | ||
genitive | yapin | — | |
partitive | yapia | — | |
inessive | yapissa | — | |
elative | yapista | — | |
illative | yapiin | — | |
adessive | yapilla | — | |
ablative | yapilta | — | |
allative | yapille | — | |
essive | yapina | — | |
translative | yapiksi | — | |
instructive | — | — | |
abessive | yapitta | — | |
comitative | — | — |
Possessive forms of yap (type risti) | ||
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possessor | singular | plural |
1st person | yapini | yapimme |
2nd person | yapisi | yapinne |
3rd person | yapinsa |
SynonymsEdit
LashiEdit
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
yap
- to stand
ReferencesEdit
- Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid[1], Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis)
PnarEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Khasian *ja:p. Cognate with Khasi ïap.
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
yap
- to die
TurkishEdit
VerbEdit
yap