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nape
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ne?p/
- Rhymes: -e?p
Etymology 1
From Middle English nape, naape, of uncertain origin. Possibly from Old French hanap (“goblet”), from Frankish *hnapp, from Proto-Germanic *hnappaz ( > Old English hnæpp, hnæp (“cup, bowl, goblet”)), as there is a hollow at the base of the skull.. More at nap.
Noun
nape (plural napes)
- The back part of the neck.
- (zoology) The part of a fish or bird immediately behind the head.
Synonyms
- nucha, nuchal (medicine)
- scruff, scruff of the neck
- withers (of a horse)
Translations
See also
- hindneck
Etymology 2
From Middle English nape, from Old French nape, nappe (“a cloth”), from Medieval Latin nappa, napa (“cloth, table-cloth, sheet”), alteration of Latin mappa (“a cloth, napkin, towel”). More at map, apron.
Noun
nape (plural napes)
- (obsolete) A tablecloth.
Derived terms
- napkin
- nappie
Etymology 3
Short for napalm.
Noun
nape (uncountable)
- (military, slang) Napalm.
- 1986, Oliver Stone, Platoon (film script)
- RHAH: They got through Alpha Company! Anything behind you don't identify itself, blow it away. Two - air strike's coming in. They gonna lay snake and nape right on the perimeter so stay tight in your holes and don't leave 'em.
- 1986, Oliver Stone, Platoon (film script)
Verb
nape (third-person singular simple present napes, present participle naping, simple past and past participle naped)
- (transitive, military, slang) To bombard with napalm.
References
Anagrams
- -pnea, Pena, neap, pane, pané, pean
Latin
Noun
n?pe
- vocative singular of n?pus
Middle English
Etymology 1
Unknown.
Alternative forms
- naape
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?na?p(?)/
Noun
nape (plural napys)
- The nape; the neck's rear.
- The nape of a fish; the part below a fish's head.
Derived terms
- napyn
Descendants
- English: nape
References
- “nap, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-30.
Etymology 2
From Old French nape, nappe, from Medieval Latin nappa.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?na?p(?)/
Noun
nape
- (rare except in compound words) tablecloth
Related terms
- napkyn
- naperye
Descendants
- English: nape (obsolete)
References
- “n?pe, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-30.
Etymology 3
Verb
nape
- Alternative form of nappen
Etymology 4
Verb
nape
- Alternative form of napyn
Old French
Etymology
From Latin mappa.
Noun
nape f (oblique plural napes, nominative singular nape, nominative plural napes)
- table cloth
Descendants
- English: nape, napkin
- French: nappe
See also
- table
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nope
English
Etymology 1
Representing no pronounced with the mouth snapped closed at the end. Compare yep and welp.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /no?p/, [no?p?]
- Rhymes: -??p
Particle
nope
- (informal) No.
- 1856, Sidney George Fisher, Charles Edward Fisher, Kanzas and the Constitution, p. 97,
- "Is my son here, Clarence?" asked Roger Oakley. "Nope. The whistle ain't blowed yet."
- 1880, R. Foli, Ill weeds, p. 319,
- "No," from Tom, ending the word with so decided a pressure of the lips that it sounded like "nope."
- 1890, Werner's Readings and Recitations, E.S. Werner, p. 50
- “Aunt Kat? And was Aunt Kat your only relation? Have you no father nor mother?” “Nope. Never had none ‘cept Aunt Kat. Her hull name was Katrina. She wuz Dutch she wuz."
- c1930, Detroit (Michigan) Board of Education, The Detroit Educational Bulletin, Detroit (Michigan) Board of Education, p. 13
- 1: I will not dishonour my country's speech by leaving off the last syllables of words, 2: I will say a good American "yes" and "no" in place of an Indian grunt "um-hum" and "nup-um" or a foreign "ya" or "yeh" and "nope"...
- 2006, Charlotte Hudson Ewing, Red Land, AuthorHouse, ?ISBN, p. 54,
- Nope. Don't know as I do.
- 1856, Sidney George Fisher, Charles Edward Fisher, Kanzas and the Constitution, p. 97,
Usage notes
The usage as a reply in the form of a single-word sentence has, since the 1850s, been far more common than any others.
Translations
Antonyms
- yup
- yep
- yeah
Noun
nope (plural nopes)
- (informal) A negative reply, no.
- 1981, Tom Higgins, Practice quick...and swim, read in Dale Earnhardt: Rear View Mirror, Sports Publishing LLC, ?ISBN (2001), p. 32
- By one reporter's count, questions about the change elicited seven shakes of the head indicating no comment, five "yeps" and three "nopes" from Earnhardt.
- 1981, Tom Higgins, Practice quick...and swim, read in Dale Earnhardt: Rear View Mirror, Sports Publishing LLC, ?ISBN (2001), p. 32
- (slang) An intensely undesirable thing, such as a circumstance or an animal, eliciting immediate repulsion without possibility of further consideration.
- 2016, Sam Plank, This Cemetery With A Haunted Playground Is A Casket Full Of Nope, Movie Pilot, [1]
- This cemetery with a haunted playground is a casket full of nope.
- 2016, Sam Plank, This Cemetery With A Haunted Playground Is A Casket Full Of Nope, Movie Pilot, [1]
Translations
Derived terms
- nope out
Etymology 2
Probably a rebracketing of an ope (see 1823 quote), from alp.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /n??p/
- Rhymes: -??p
Noun
nope (plural nopes)
- (archaic, except near Staffordshire) A bullfinch
- 1613, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, read in The Complete Works of Michael Drayton, Now First Collected. With Introductions and Notes by Richard Hooper. Volume 2. Poly-olbion Elibron Classics (2005) [facsimile of John Russell Smith (1876 ed)], p. 146,
- To Philomell the next, the Linnet we prefer;/And by that warbling bird, the Wood-Lark place we then, /The Reed-sparrow, the Nope, the Red-breast, and the Wren, /The Yellow-pate: which though she hurt the blooming tree, /Yet scarce hath any bird a finer pipe than she.
- 1823, Edward Moor, Suffolk Words and Phrases: or, An attempt to collect the lingual localisms of that county, R. Hunter, p. 255
- I may note that olp, if pronounced ope, as it sometimes is, may be the origin of nope; an ope, and a nope, differ as little as possible.
- 1836, David Booth, An Analytical Dictionary of the English Language, in which the Words are Explained in the Order of Their Natural Affinity, Independent of Alphabetical Arrangement, p. 380
- In Natural History, 'An Eye of Pheasants' was also 'A Nye of Pheasants', and even the human Eye was written a Nye. The Bulfinch was either a Nope, or an Ope ; the common Lizard, or Eft (Old English Evet) is also the Newt; the Water-Eft is the Water-Newt ; and the Saxon nedder, a serpent (probably allied to Nether, as crawling on the ground) has been transformed into an Adder.
- 1882, Abram Smythe Palmer, Folk-etymology: A Dictionary of Verbal Corruptions Or Words Perverted in Form Or Meaning, G. Bell and Sons, p. 583,
- Nope, an old name for the bullfinch used by Drayton (Wright), is a corrupt form for an ope, otherwise spelt aupe, olp, or alpe (Prompt.Parv.).
- 1613, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, read in The Complete Works of Michael Drayton, Now First Collected. With Introductions and Notes by Richard Hooper. Volume 2. Poly-olbion Elibron Classics (2005) [facsimile of John Russell Smith (1876 ed)], p. 146,
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:nope.
Etymology 3
Possibly influenced by nape and knap.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /n??p/
Noun
nope (plural nopes)
- (East Midlands and Northern England) A blow to the head.
- 1823, Francis Grose, Pierce Egan, Grose's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, Francis Grose, p. xci
- (in an example of use of crackmans) The cull thought to have loped by breaking through the crackmans, but we fetched him back by a nope on the costard, which stopped his jaw.
- 1829, Joseph Hunter, The Hallamshire Glossary, W. Pickering, p. 69,
- I'll fetch thee a nope.
- 1823, Francis Grose, Pierce Egan, Grose's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, Francis Grose, p. xci
Verb
nope (third-person singular simple present nopes, present participle noping, simple past and past participle noped)
- (archaic, East Midlands and Northern England) To hit someone on the head.
- 1851, Sylvester Judd, Margaret: a tale of the real and the ideal, blight and bloom, Phillips, Sampson, & Co., p. 183,
- "Nope him on the costard," said Ben Bolter.
- 1891, T F Thiselton Dyer, Church-lore Gleanings, A. D. Innes & co., p. 65
- The sexton seemed reluctant to resume his old duties, remarking -- "Be I to nope Mr. M on the head if I catches him asleep?"
- 1851, Sylvester Judd, Margaret: a tale of the real and the ideal, blight and bloom, Phillips, Sampson, & Co., p. 183,
Anagrams
- open, peno-, peon, pone
Dutch
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: no?pe
Verb
nope
- (archaic) singular present subjunctive of nopen
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: nope
Interjection
nope
- (informal) nope
Anagrams
- open
French
Alternative forms
- noppe
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /n?p/
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch noppe (“a fluff of wool, wool tassel”), from Old Dutch *noppo, *hnoppo, from Proto-Germanic *hnuppô (“nap of cloth”), from Proto-Indo-European *knew-, *kenw- (“to scratch, scrape, rub”). Cognate with Old English hnoppa (“nap of cloth”). More at nap.
Noun
nope f (plural nopes)
- A tuft of wool; a knot in a fabric; nap.
Etymology 2
English nope
Interjection
nope
- (informal, neologism) nope
Further reading
- “nope” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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