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flap
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /flæp/
- Rhymes: -æp
Etymology 1
From Middle English flap, flappe (“a slap; blow; buffet; fly-flap; something flexible or loose; flap”), related to Middle Dutch flabbe (“a blow; slap on the face; fly-flap; flap”) (modern Dutch flap (“flap”)), Middle Low German flabbe, vlabbe, flebbe, from the verb (see below). Related also to English flab and flabby.
Noun
flap (plural flaps)
- Anything broad and flexible that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved.
- A hinged leaf.
- (aviation) A hinged surface on the trailing edge of the wings of an aeroplane.
- A side fin of a ray.
- Synonym: wing
- The motion of anything broad and loose, or a sound or stroke made with it.
- A controversy, scandal, stir, or upset.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:commotion
- (phonetics) A consonant sound made by a single muscle contraction, such as the sound [[?]] in the standard American English pronunciation of body.
- Synonym: tap
- (surgery) A piece of tissue incompletely detached from the body, as an intermediate stage of plastic surgery.
- (veterinary medicine) A disease in the lips of horses.
- (slang, vulgar, chiefly in the plural) The labia, the vulva.
- (obsolete) A blow or slap (especially to the face).
- 1450, Palladius on Husbondrie?
- Ware the horn and heels lest they fling a flap to thee.
- a1500 The Prose Merlin?
- The squire lift up his hand and gave him such a flap that all they in the chapel might it hear.
- 1450, Palladius on Husbondrie?
- (obsolete) A young prostitute.
- 1631, James Mabbe, Celestina IX. 110
- Fall to your flap, my Masters, kisse and clip. […] Come hither, you foule flappes.
- 1631, James Mabbe, Celestina IX. 110
Derived terms
- cat flap
- (aeroplane): flaperon
- flap seat
Translations
See also
- flap on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- fold
- lappet
Etymology 2
From Middle English flappen (“to flap, clap, slap, strike”), related to Dutch flappen (“to flap”), German Low German flappen (“to flap”), German flappen (“to flap”), Dutch flabberen (“to flit, flap”). Probably ultimately imitative.
Verb
flap (third-person singular simple present flaps, present participle flapping, simple past and past participle flapped)
- (transitive) To move (something broad and loose) up and down.
- The crow slowly flapped its wings.
- (intransitive) To move loosely back and forth.
- The flag flapped in the breeze.
- (computing, telecommunications, intransitive) Of a resource or network destination: to be advertised as being available and then unavailable (or available by different routes) in rapid succession.
Translations
Derived terms
- flapper
- flappingly
- unflappable
Anagrams
- PLAF
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch flabbe, probably ultimately imitative.
Pronunciation
Noun
flap m (plural flappen, diminutive flapje n)
- flap (something flexible that is loose)
- (colloquial) banknote
Derived terms
- appelflap
- flappentap
- flappen tappen
Volapük
Noun
flap (nominative plural flaps)
- blow, hit
Declension
Derived terms
- flapan
- flapön
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mudflap
English
Etymology
mud +? flap
Noun
mudflap (plural mudflaps)
- A rectangular flap mounted near the wheel of a truck to prevent mud from being thrown up onto the vehicle.
Derived terms
- mudflap girl
Translations
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- what do mud flaps do
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