yapn.1
/jap/, U.S. /jæp/ 1.
a. A dog that yaps; a yelping cur. Now dialect.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dog > [noun] > sound made by > yelp > dog defined by
whappet1577
yap1603
yawper1678
yapper1823
yelper1847
1603 C. Heydon Def. Iudiciall Astrol. i. 4 Those bawling yappes, that barke rather of fashion, then fiercenes.
1692 R. L'Estrange Fables cclxxxiv. 248 'Tis a Common Thing upon the Passing of a Strange Dog through a Town, to have a Hundred Curs Bawling at his Breech, and Every Yap gets a Snap at him.
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830)
b. A fool, someone easily taken in; also, an uncultured or unsophisticated person. dialect and U.S. slang.
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the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > person of weak intellect > [noun] > simpleton
innocentc1386
greenhead1576
gonyc1580
ninnyhammer1592
chicken1600
loach1605
simplician1605
hichcock1607
smelt1607
foppasty1611
dovea1616
goslinga1616
funge1621
simplicity1633
gewgaw1634
squab1640
simpletonian1652
ninny-whoop1653
softhead1654
foppotee1663
greenhorn1672
sumph1682
sawney1699
sillyton1708
gaby?1746
gobbin?1746
green goose1768
nin-a-kin1787
Jacob1811
green1824
sillikin1832
greeny1834
softhorn1836
sucker1838
softie1850
dope1851
soft1854
verigreen1854
peanut1864
daftie1872
josser1886
naïf1891
yapc1894
barm-stick1924
knobhead1931
sook1933
nig-nog1953
sawn1953
pronk1959
stiffy1965
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > cultural ignorance > [noun] > uncultured person
runt1602
home-bred1609
pork1645
Huna1744
savage1762
heathen1817
Philistine1825
stringy-bark1833
roughneck1834
yahoo1861
yapc1894
lowbrow1901
meatball1937
primitive1967
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > duping, making a fool of > [noun] > gullible person, dupe
foola1382
woodcockc1430
geckc1530
cousinc1555
cokes1567
milch cow1582
gudgeon1584
coney1591
martin1591
gull1594
plover1599
rook1600
gull-finch1604
cheatee1615
goata1616
whirligig1624
chouse1649
coll1657
cully1664
bubble1668
lamb1668
Simple Simon?1673
mouth1680
dupe1681
cull1698
bub1699
game1699
muggins1705
colour1707
milk cow1727
flat1762
gulpin1802
slob1810
gaggee1819
sucker1838
hoaxee1840
softie1850
foozle1860
lemon1863
juggins1882
yob1886
patsy1889
yapc1894
fall guy1895
fruit1895
meemaw1895
easy mark1896
lobster1896
mark1896
wise guy1896
come-on1897
pushover1907
John1908
schnookle1908
Gretchen1913
jug1914
schnook1920
soft touch1924
prospect1931
steamer1932
punter1934
dill1941
Joe Soap1943
possum1945
Moreton Bay1953
easy touch1959
c1894 C. H. Hoyt Texas Steer (1899) iii. 6 Instead of his being the only ‘yap’, as he calls it, in Congress there were about two hundred other members.
1895 W. Stevens Let. 4 Aug. (1967) 6 Paul and Several other Yaps are up with them.
1898 B. Kirkby Lakeland Words 157 Yap, a chap 'at's a bit ov o gomeril.
1901 ‘J. Flynt’ & ‘F. Walton’ Powers that Prey i. iii. 21 This yap from the country.
1901 ‘J. Flynt’ & ‘F. Walton’ Powers that Prey iii. i. 60 I've seen those yaps come to town an' throw up their hands at sights that a Bowery kid wouldn't drop a cigarette snipe to see.
1915 W. Churchill Far Country xxiv. 452 The yaps that listen to him don't understand him, but somehow he gets under their skins.
1922 H. Titus Timber xvi. 149 These yaps haven't got anything to think with.
1926 J. Black You can't Win iv. 36 You are just the kind of a yap that gets up in the middle of the night and hides his money so carefully that he has to have a policeman find it for him in the morning.
1977 New Musical Express 12 Feb. 12/2 Then this yap starts yowling about anarchy,..and eventually the record seems to end in the middle.
2.
a. A sound expressible by the syllable ‘yap’; a short sharp bark or cry.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > by noises > voice or sound made by animal > [noun] > bark or yelp
yelp?a1513
bark1550
youp1808
wough1824
yawp1824
yap1826
boof1906
wow1913
the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dog > [noun] > sound made by > yelp
yelp?a1513
yaff1609
yap1826
yamph1832
yaffle1836
ki-yi1884
1826 C. Lamb in New Monthly Mag. 16 224 But, yap, yap, yap!—what is this confounded cur?
1864 Daily Tel. 8 Oct. A small dog,..giving a quick series of sharp low barks, or yaps.
1879 R. Jefferies Wild Life 258 A weasel rushes past... He utters a strange startled ‘yap’.
1901 Pall Mall Mag. July 328 The sub. gave a little yap of joy.
b. The mouth. U.S. slang.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > mouth > [noun]
moutheOE
billa1000
munc1400
mussa1529
mouc1540
gan1567
gob1568
bouche1582
oven1593
taster1596
Pipe Office1609
neba1616
gab1681
gam1724
mouthpiece1738
potato-trap1785
potato-jaw1791
fly-trapc1795
trap1796
mouthie1801
mug1820
gin-trap1824
rattletrap1824
box1830
mouf1836
bread trap1838
puss1844
tater-trap1846
gash1852
kissing trap1854
shop1855
north and south1858
mooey1859
kisser1860
gingerbread-trap1864
bazoo1877
bake1893
tattie-trap1894
yap1900
smush1930
gate1937
cakehole1943
motormouth1976
pie hole1983
geggie1985
1900 Dial. Notes 2 70 Yap, the mouth.
1937 J. Weidman I can get it for you Wholesale i. 8 Every time you open your yap to say something.
1959 N. Mailer Advts. for Myself (1961) 43 There was a guy screaming his yap off next to him,..holding his face.
1977 H. Fast Immigrants iv. 243 They know that if they open their yaps, we'll close them down.
c. Idle or loquacious talk; chatter; = yawp n. b. slang.
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the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [noun] > chatter
chirma800
clappingc1386
glavera1400
clapa1420
clackc1440
blabc1460
clattera1500
babble?a1525
babblery1532
pratery1533
clitter-clatter1535
by-talk?1551
prattle1555
prittle-prattle1556
twittle-twattle1565
cacquet1567
prate?1574
prattlement1579
babblement1595
gibble-gabble1600
gabble1602
twattlea1639
tolutiloquence1656
pratement1657
gaggle1668
leden1674
cackle1676
twit-twat1677
clash1685
chit-chat1710
chatter-chitter1711
chitter-chatter1712
palavering1732
hubble-bubble1735
palaver1748
rattle1748
gum1751
mag1778
gabber1780
gammon1781
gash1787
chattery1789
gabber1792
whitter-whatter1805
yabble1808
clacket1812
talky-talky1812
potter1818
yatter1827
blue streak1830
gabblement1831
psilologya1834
chin-music1834
patter1841
jaw1842
chatter1851
brabble1861
tongue-work1866
yacker1882
talkee1885
chelp1891
chattermag1895
whitter1897
burble1898
yap1907
clatfart1913
jive1928
logorrhœa1935
waffle1937
yackety-yacking1953
yack1958
yackety-yack1958
motormouth1976
1907 Dial. Notes 3 204 Yap, offensive or superfluous talk. ‘Shut up your yap.’
1926 R. Kipling Debits & Credits 314 He'd preserved it in his head through all those weeks..o' Bert's yap.
1928 A. P. Herbert Trials of Topsy 133 All this pragmatical yap about tea being a necessity and beer being a vice.
1945 Coast to Coast 1944 1 It wasn't much fun listening to all that yap when it really didn't mean a thing.
1968 K. Weatherly Roo Shooter 21 Never mind that yap. Where's the tucker?
d. A chat. slang.
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the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > chatting or chat
confabulationc1450
device1490
chat1573
tittle-tattle?c1640
small talk1650
confab1701
chit-chat1710
jaw1748
small-talking1786
prose1787
rap1787
coze1804
talky-talky1812
clack1813
chit-chatting1823
cozey1837
gossip1849
mardlea1852
yarn1857
conflab1873
chinwag1879
chopsing1879
cooze1880
chatting1884
schmoozing1884
talky-talk1884
pitch1888
schmooze1895
coosy1903
wongi1929
yap1930
kibitz1931
natter1943
old talk1956
jaw-jaw1958
yacking1959
ole talk1964
rapping1967
1930 D. L. Sayers & ‘R. Eustace’ Documents in Case 145 I'd like to have a yap with somebody who talks my language.
1957 R. Lawler Summer of 17th Doll ii. i. 66 Real ear-basher he is, always on for a yap.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
Yapn.2
/jap/, U.S. /jæp/ (See quots.)
ΘΠ
society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > [noun] > professional class > young professional > specific
buppie1984
Yap1984
1984 Chicago Sun-Times 25 Mar. (Views) 7/1 Yumpies, young upwardly mobile professionals, a.k.a. Yaps (young aspiring professionals).
1984 Sunday Times 28 Oct. (Colour Suppl.) 12/3 Phillips' Yaps believe in vigorous self-advancement, jogging and BMWs.
1985 Times 9 Feb. 11/1 (heading) Yaps, or Young Aspiring Professionals are brash, bright and bound for the top.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
yapyaupadj.
/jap/, /jɔːp/, U.S. /jæp/, /jɔp/, /jɑp/, Scottish English /jap/, /jɔp/ Chiefly Scottish and northern.† 2. Eager or ready, esp. to do something. Obsolete.
1. Clever, cunning; shrewd, astute; nimble, active: = yepe adj. 1.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > bodily movement > [adjective] > qualities of bodily movement > agile or nimble
lightOE
quiverOE
yepec1275
taitc1300
yap13..
delivera1375
swippera1387
wight1390
nimblea1400
yarea1400
yerna1400
smitherc1475
leger1483
agilea1500
liver1530
lightsome1567
wimble1579
nimble jointed1591
nimble shifting1591
agilious1599
nimbling1599
nimble spirited1611
expedite1612
fitchanta1616
airy1642
fantastic1645
volant1650
clever1691
light-limbed1695
spry1746
swack1768
swank1786
yauld1787
deliverly1820
slippy1847
nippy1849
springe1859
pantherish1869
pantherine1890
flippant1895
loose1907
Tarzanesque1933
Tarzan-like1943
the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > sharpness, shrewdness, insight > [adjective]
sharpc888
yepec1000
spacka1200
yare-witelc1275
fellc1300
yap13..
seeinga1382
far-castinga1387
sightya1400
perceivinga1425
snellc1425
politic?a1439
quickc1449
pregnant?a1475
pert1484
quick-wittedc1525
apt1535
intelligentc1540
queemc1540
ready-witted1576
political1577
of (a) great, deep, etc., reach1579
conceited1583
perspicuous1584
sharp-witteda1586
shrewd1589
inseeing1590
conceived1596
acute1598
pregnate1598
agile1599
nimble-headed1601
insighted1602
nimble1604
nimble-witted1604
penetrant1605
penetrating1606
spraga1616
acuminous1619
discoursing1625
smart1639
penetrativea1641
sagacious1650
nasute1653
acuminate1654
blunt-sharpa1661
long-headed1665
smoky1688
rapid1693
keen1704
gash1706
snack1710
cute1731
mobile1778
wide awake1785
acuminated1786
quick-minded1789
kicky1790
snap1790
downy1803
snacky1806
unbaffleable1827
varmint1829
needle-sharp1836
nimble-brained1836
incisivea1850
spry1849
fast1850
snappy1871
hard-boiled1884
on the spot1903
the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > [adjective] > astute
oldOE
witterc1100
pratc1175
smeighc1200
fellc1300
yap13..
far-castinga1387
parlousc1390
advisee?a1400
politic?a1439
astucec1550
political1577
astute1611
knowing1664
shrewda1684
sharp1697
leery1718
peery1721
fly1811
canny1816
flash1818
astucious1823
varmint1829
chickaleary1839
wide1879
snide1883
varminty1907
crazy like (or as) a fox1935
13.. Northern Passion (Harl.) 1944 Ȝe haue ȝape men him forto ȝeme.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 9019 Haue he bene be-fore neuer sa ȝape [Vesp. yepe] fra þen I. telle him for a nape.
a1450 J. Myrc Instr. to Par. Priests 1651 Bvt, confessour, be wys and ȝop, And sende forth þese to þe byschop.
c1480 (a1400) St. John Evangelist 318 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 118 [O]f þar ydolis þe bischope, aristodemus, þat wes ȝape, raisit a gret sedicione In þe puple of þat towne.
a1513 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen in Poems (1998) I. 43 Ane grome..Ȝaip and ȝing.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 6642 A ȝop knyght & a ȝonge.
1568 Christis Kirk on Grene in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1928) II. 265 A ȝaip ȝung man..Lowsd of a schot.
1572 (a1500) Taill of Rauf Coilȝear (1882) 630 The ȝaip ȝeman to the ȝet is gane.
1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Yap, apt, quick.
1891 ‘H. Haliburton’ Ochil Idylls 40 I'm juist as yap an' yauld As e'er was youth.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > wish or inclination > willingness > [adjective] > eager
yevereOE
frecka1000
cofc1000
fousOE
sharpc1000
anguishous?c1225
eager?a1300
hardya1387
hetera1400
yeverousa1400
belivea1450
forthward1488
yapc1500
ertand1508
tite?a1540
high1649
fell1667
forwardeda1674
agog1683
enthusiastic1777
empressé1878
rearing1904
press-on1948
c1500 Rowll's Cursing (Bannatyne MS.) 205 With gaipand mowth richt yaip to swelly.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid xii. ii. 88 The byssy knaipis and verlettis of his stabill About thame stud, full ȝaip and seruyabill.
a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 602 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 113 Ȝaipe yocht he ȝong was to faynd his offens.
1728 A. Ramsay Daft Bargain 11 [He] seem'd right yap His mealtith quickly up to gawp.
3. Eager or ready to eat, hungry.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > hunger > [adjective] > hungry
hungryc950
hungering971
hollow1362
eagera1475
empty?1490
ahungrya1500
sharp-set1540
greedlya1546
anhungry1578
starveling1578
belly-pinched1608
mad-hungry1608
jejunea1620
sharp-bent1675
sharp1678
nithered1691
peckish1714
stomach-tight1718
yap1768
yaupish1789
picksome1847
1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherdess i. 20 Right yape she yoked to the pleasing feast.
a1774 R. Fergusson Poems (1785) 151 The farmers sons, as yap as sparrows.
a1837 J. D. Carrick in Whistle-Binkie 1st Ser. (ed. 2) 74 Like leeches when yaup.
1871 W. Alexander Johnny Gibb ii. 17 Gi'e the bairns a bit piece..the like o' them's aye yap.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
yapv.
/jap/, U.S. /jæp/ 1. intransitive. To bark sharply, as a small dog; to yelp.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dog > [verb (intransitive)] > howl or yelp
galec1275
yawpc1400
baffc1440
yelp1553
bawl1556
waff1570
bewh1581
yap1668
yamph1718
nyaff1808
yaff1808
yaffle1847
yappet1868
ki-yi1869
1668 [see yapping n. and adj. at Derivatives].
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830)
1843 R. S. Surtees Handley Cross I. i. 5 Up come the hounds..yelping, yapping, puffing, and blowing.
1865 A. Manning Belforest II. 100 A little dog that..yap-yapped at every visitor.
1901 G. Meredith Forest Hist. in Poems xvii Where long forlorn the lone dog whines and yaps.
2.
a. transferred. To speak snappishly.
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the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > speak in a particular manner [verb (intransitive)] > speak loudly or angrily
thundera1340
raisec1384
to speak outc1515
jowlc1540
fulmine1623
to talk big1680
tang1686
to speak upa1723
to go ona1753
rip1828
whalea1852
yap1864
to rip and tear1884
megaphone1901
to pop off1914
foghorn1918
to sound off1918
loudmouth1931
woof1934
1864 A. Thomas Denis Donne III. 204 Dora was not one of the women who yap and scream in wrath or excitement.
1893 R. Kipling Many Inventions 130 Ortheris yapped indignantly.
b. To talk idly or loquaciously; to chatter. Also transitive, with quoted words as object slang (originally dialect).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > be talkative [verb (intransitive)] > talk excessively or chatter
chavel?c1225
babblea1250
chattera1250
clacka1250
janglea1300
ganglec1300
clapc1315
mumblec1350
blabberc1375
carp1377
tatterc1380
garre1382
rattlec1400
clatter1401
chimec1405
gabc1405
pattera1450
smattera1450
languetc1450
pratec1460
chat1483
jabber1499
clittera1529
cackle1530
prattle1532
blatter1533
blab1535
to run on pattens1546
tattle1547
prittle-prattlea1555
trattlea1555
tittle-tattle1556
quiddlea1566
brabble1570
clicket1570
twattle1573
gabble1574
prittle1583
to like to hear oneself speak, talk1597
to word it1612
deblaterate1623
tongue1624
twitter1630
snatter1647
oversay1656
whiffle1706
to gallop away1711
splutter1728
gob1770
gibble-gabble1775
palaver1781
to talk (etc.) nineteen to the dozen1785
gammon1789
witter1808
yabble1808
yaff1808
mag1810
chelp1820
tongue-pad1825
yatter1825
potter1826
chipper1829
jaw-jaw1831
buzz1832
to shoot off one's mouth1864
yawp1872
blate1878
chin1884
yap1888
spiel1894
to talk (also lie, swear, etc.) a blue streak1895
to run off at the mouth1908
chattermag1909
clatfart1913
to talk a streak1915
to run one's mouth1916
natter1942
ear-bash1944
rabbit1950
yack1950
yacker1961
to eat parrot head (also bottom)1965
yacket1969
to twat on1996
1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Yappy,..2. To chatter. The use of the word is distinctly depreciatory. Mind yer work, and neet bide there yappin.
1893 G. E. Dartnell & E. H. Goddard Gloss. Words Wilts. 185 Yap, Yop, to talk noisily. ‘What be a yopping there for?’
1898 R. Blakeborough Wit N. Riding Yorks. 473 Yap, to talk foolishly.
1899 S. Crane Monster xviii. 76 I told him to keep his trap shut. But then you know how he'll go all over town yapping about the thing.
1922 S. Lewis Babbitt x. 141 He hands me the cold-boiled stare and yaps, ‘I dunno, friend, I'll see.’
1937 J. Weidman I can get it for you Wholesale iii. 28 You've been yapping away.
1946 K. Tennant Lost Haven (1947) xix. 315 Len wished Alec wouldn't yap so much.
1963 Australasian Post (Melbourne) 14 Mar. 51/2 If you want to yap on like a drongo in the DTs..go ahead: be a gig!
1975 Daily Tel. 30 June 13/7 A lot of women who are happy to yap away normally, became tongue-tied when they had to talk and drive.
1985 ‘A. T. Ellis’ Unexplained Laughter 49 They end up writing books about it and yapping away on the television.
Derivatives
ˈyapper n. a dog or person that yaps.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > sounds like animal or bird sounds > [noun] > yapper
yapper1823
the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dog > [noun] > sound made by > yelp > dog defined by
whappet1577
yap1603
yawper1678
yapper1823
yelper1847
1823 New Monthly Mag. 8 499 Some dozen yappers and yellers of all shapes and breeds.
1901 Longman's Mag. May 46 His enemies said ‘Job wer' a proper yapper’.
ˈyapping n. and adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > by noises > voice or sound made by animal > [noun] > bark or yelp > barking or yelping
yawping1576
latration1623
yellowing1652
yapping1668
hylactism1818
the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dog > [noun] > sound made by > bark > barking
barkingc1300
baffing1401
wappingc1440
bawling1555
spending1615
yapping1668
the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dog > [noun] > sound made by > yelp > yelping
bawling1555
yawping1576
yelping1593
yapping1668
yappiness1928
1668 R. L'Estrange tr. F. G. de Quevedo y Villegas Visions (1708) 243 A Voice not unlike the yapping of a foysting Cur.
1868 M. E. Braddon Dead-Sea Fruit xxv Half a dozen little yapping dogs..assailed me.
1891 A. Conan Doyle White Company ix The shrill yapping of the hounds.
1915 Edinb. Rev. Apr. 225 Suddenly on every side of her broke out the yapping of guns.
1925 M. R. James Warning to Curious 52 A small man..gave directions in a rather yapping foreign accent to his chauffeur.
ˈyappingly adv.
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the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [adverb]
roundly1546
babblingly1561
babblishly1574
talkatively1589
full-moutha1605
fluently1613
volubly?1615
gliba1623
glibly1669
gash1721
gashlya1774
rattlingly1824
loquaciously1854
garrulously1859
chatteringly1864
communicatively1868
chattily1892
talkingly1895
gushily1921
yappingly1924
1924 Chambers's Jrnl. Feb. 128/1 Bob danced yappingly around him.
yap-yapping n. and adj.
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yamphing1728
yaffing1815
yap-yapping1865
yaffling1875
yappy1909
1865 A. Manning Belforest I. 265 Every little yap-yapping dog.
1894 Sat. Rev. 3 Mar. 214 There was some rather feeble yap yapping at the Peers.
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