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) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 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) | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | singular | plural |
| 1st person | yapini | yapimme |
| 2nd person | yapisi | yapinne |
| 3rd person | yapinsa | |
SynonymsEdit
TurkishEdit
VerbEdit
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