different between eep vs nep

English

Etymology

Imitative; compare eek.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ip/
• Rhymes: -i?p

Interjection

eep

1. (onomatopoeia) An expression of surprise or dismay.
   • 1993 The Simpsons, Bart's Inner Child [1]

     Hot-dog vendor: “Get him!”

     Bart: “Eep.”

   • 2000, Adam Cadre, Ready, Okay!

     Then she ripped the door off its hinges and bent the flimsy metal in half between her hands.

     “Eep,” I said.

Synonyms

• (expression of surprise): See Thesaurus:wow
• (expression of dismay): See Thesaurus:wow

Noun

eep (plural eeps)

1. A short scream or yelp.
   • 1853, Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, and John Holmes Agnew (eds.), The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, page 460,

     "Then the peepers begin on a high key, with a singularly sweet and lucid voice, somewhere betwixt a silver-whistle and a glass-bell, smacking little of the mid: 'Eep!-eep-eep-eep! ee ee-ee! eepee! eepee-peepee! peep-eep! eepepee! eepepee! eepepee!' accompanied by a few trills long continued..."

   • 1962, Jet Screamer, The Jetsons, "Eep opp ork ah ah! And that means 'I love you'!" (but, according to Elroy Jetson in the episode "A Date with Jet Screamer", he says Judy Jetson wrote it for him, "eep opp ork ah-ah" means "meet me tonight")[3] (Note: this reference is incorrect.)
   • 2002, Randy Peyser, Crappy to Happy [4]

     She encouraged them to express their teeny-tiniest selves with an “eep.”

Verb

eep (third-person singular simple present eeps, present participle eeping, simple past and past participle eeped)

1. To vocalise a short scream or yelp; to produce an eep.
   • 2002, Randy Peyser, Crappy to Happy [5]

     Now there are fulfilled women happily “eeping” all over the Bay Area. I swear to you this is true.

   • 2002, Chris Crutcher, “The Other Pin,” in Athletic Shorts [6]

     Petey’s voice rises to that preadolescent pitch it always hits when he feels his life spinning out of control. “Dues are what Boy Scouts pay,” he eeps.

Anagrams

• Epe, p'ee, pee

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n?p/
• Rhymes: -?p

Etymology 1

From Middle English neppe, nepe, nepte, nept, from Old English nepte, nefte, from Latin nepeta. Compare Dutch neppe, nippe (“catnip”).

Alternative forms

• nip (dialectal)

Noun

nep (usually uncountable, plural neps)

1. Catmint, catnip; Nepeta cataria.
   • 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio 2007, p. 201:

     Nep is generally used for women to procure their courses, being taken inwardly or outwardly, either alone or with other convenient herbs in a decoction to bathe them, of sit over the hot fumes thereof.

Etymology 2

Perhaps a variant of nap for knap, from Middle English knep, kneppe, knappe, a conflation of Old English cnep, cnæp, cnæpp (“top, knop, summit”) and Old Norse knappr (“knob”), both from Proto-Germanic *knappaz, *knappô (“knob”), from Proto-Indo-European *gneb?- (“to press, tighten”), from Proto-Indo-European *gen- (“to pinch, squeeze, bend, press together, ball”). Compare also Old Norse hnappr (“button”). Related to knob.

Noun

nep (plural neps)

1. (Britain, dialect) A knot in a fibre of cotton.

Anagrams

• PEN, PNe, Pen, pen

Ainu

Etymology

From ne (“interrogatory root”) +? p (“thing”). See nekon, nen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ne?p]

Pronoun

nep (Kana spelling ???)

1. (interrogative) what

Usage notes

Less common in spoken language than hemanta.

Synonyms

• hemanta

See also

Dutch

Etymology

From German Nepp.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n?p/
• Hyphenation: nep
• Rhymes: -?p

Noun

nep m (uncountable)

1. imitation, fake

Adjective

nep (comparative nepper, superlative nepst)

1. fake, not real
2. artificial, not natural

Inflection

Some Dutch speakers may consider attributive use of this adjective informal. Thus, the inflected form neppe is not very commonly used in more formal language. In such language, the word is used more often in compounds formed by prefixing with nep-. The predicative and partitive forms are used normally.

Synonyms

• namaak

Antonyms

• authentiek
• echt
• natuurlijk

Derived terms

• nepneutraliteit
• nepnieuws
• nepperd
• nepvlees

Anagrams

• pen

Middle English

Noun

nep

1. Alternative form of nap (“drinking bowl”)