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English

Etymology

An anglicised spelling of fa.

Noun

fah (plural fahs)

1. (music) Alternative form of fa.

Anagrams

• FHA, HFA, ha'f

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??x/

Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *faih, from Proto-Germanic *faihaz.

Adjective

f?h

1. guilty; criminal
2. hostile
3. outlawed

Declension

Descendants

• English: foe

Etymology 2

From Proto-West Germanic *faih, from Proto-Germanic *faihaz, from Proto-Indo-European *póy?os.

Cognate with Old High German f?h, Gothic ???????????????????? (faihs). The Proto-Indo-European root is also the source of Ancient Greek ???????? (poikílos, “multicoloured”).

Adjective

f?h

1. decorated, coloured, shining, adorned

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: fou, fow, fawe, fah
  • Scots: faw

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *fak, from Proto-Germanic *fak?, whence also Old English fæc.

Noun

fah n

1. wall

Descendants

• German: Fach

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fæp/
• Rhymes: -æp

Etymology 1

Late 16th century.

Adjective

fap (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Drunk.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:drunk

Etymology 2

Onomatopeic Internet neologism from the sound of male masturbation, originally used in English translations of some adult Japanese manga, and popularized on the Internet by the webcomic The Thin H Line/Sexy Losers and other online sources.

Interjection

fap

1. (informal, Internet slang) To indicate that someone (normally the speaker) is either masturbating, or inspired to by sexual arousal.

   I was watching some porn – fap fap fap – when my computer crashed, again!

   She's single?... *fap fap fap*

Verb

fap (third-person singular simple present faps, present participle fapping, simple past and past participle fapped)

1. (slang) To masturbate.
   • 2014, Caitlin Moran, How to Build a Girl, Ebury 2015, p. 39:

     For what reason – other than a knowing sadistic streak – would they have named something millions of teenage girls were fapping themselves senseless with ‘Mum’?

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:masturbate

Descendants

• Finnish: fäpätä
• Polish: fapa?
• Russian: ?????? (fapat?)

Noun

fap (plural faps)

1. (slang, countable) A session of masturbation.

   I was horny, so I had a quick fap in the public restroom.

Derived terms

• fappable
• Fappening
• fapworthy
• fappy

Anagrams

• AFP, FP&A, PFA