different between nappy vs vest

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?næpi/
• Rhymes: -æpi

Etymology 1

Probably shortened from napkin (but possibly a corruption of French nappe, since napkin is already a diminutive).

Noun

nappy (plural nappies)

1. (Britain, Ireland, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand) An absorbent garment worn by a baby who does not yet have voluntary control of their bladder and bowels or by someone who is incontinent; a diaper.
   • 1995, Jennie Lindon, Lance Lindon, Leandra Negrini, Caring for Young Children, page 60,

     You will notice that disposable nappies are sold in boy and girl versions. They vary in where the thickest padding is provided.

   • 2005, Medical Association of Malawi, Malawi Medical Journal: The Journal of Medical Association of Malawi, Volume 17, page 39,

     Other equipment required was soap for hand washing and washing of nappies, a washing line for the drying of nappies, […] .

   • 2008, Isabelle Young, Healthy Travel: Asia & India, Lonely Planet, 2nd edition, page 275,

     You could burn disposable nappies (not a very practical option); otherwise, it?s probably best to take a supply of large plastic bags or nappy sacks with you and to dispose of them as thoughtfully as you can.

   • 2009, Chris Arnold, Ethical Marketing and The New Consumer, page 55,

     In response we mailed hundreds of nappies to students in halls. On the nappy was a simple message, IT'S A LOT EASIER TO PUT ON A CONDOM.

Synonyms

• (US, Canada) diaper
• (South African, archaic British) napkin

Translations

Verb

nappy (third-person singular simple present nappies, present participle nappying, simple past and past participle nappied)

1. (transitive) To put a nappy on.

   The mother nappied the baby.

See also

• Diaper on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From nap +? -y.

Adjective

nappy (comparative nappier, superlative nappiest)

1. Having a nap (of cloth etc.); downy; shaggy.
   • 1950, US District Courts, US Court of Claims, US Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, Federal Supplement, Volume 89, page 438,

     The original accused device, as was the patented device, was made of cotton flannel with a nappy surface on each side, […] .

2. (US, informal, sometimes offensive) Of hair: tightly curled or twisted; frizzy (often specifically in reference to Afro textured hair)
   • 1987, Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography, page 30,

     We would talk about each other?s ugly, big lips and flat noses. We would call each other pickaninnies and nappy-haired so-and-so?s.

   • 2006, Ronald L. Jackson II, Scripting the Black Masculine Body, page 52,

     For example, some Black people?s corporeal zones include nappy hair texture, wide noses, thick lips, and darker-than-white skin complexion, all of which come into play when an individual is interacting with a cultural “Other.”

   • 2010, Nadine George-Graves, Urban Bush Women: Twenty Years of African American Dance Theater, Community Engagement, and Working It Out, page 50,

     She had decided to just cover her hair with a scarf because Aunt Bell was “old school” and Zollar did not want to have to explain why she had nappy hair.

3. (rare) Inclined to sleep; sleepy.
   • 1930, Hubert Evans, H. E. M. Sellen, The Silent Call (page 90)

     After supper I felt nappy and dropped right off to sleep.

Translations

See also

• Afro-textured hair on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Discrimination based on hair texture on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 3

From Middle English nap, from Old English hnæp, hnæpp, hnæpf (“cup, bowl”), from Proto-Germanic *hnappaz (“bowl, goblet, cup”). See hanaper.

Alternative forms

• nappie

Noun

nappy (plural nappies)

1. A shallow, flat-bottomed earthenware or glass bowl with sloping sides.
   • 1902, Charles Austin Bates, The Art and Literature of Business, Volume 4, page 328,

     Suppose you advertise a “five-inch glass nappy.” It doesn?t tell a reader anything — a woman especially. She can?t tell how big five inches are anyway ; but just say, “large imitation cut glass fruit saucers at thirty cents a dozen,” and get your packers ready.

   • 1909, Milton Osman Jones, Guide to Successful Squab Raising, page 11,

     The use of a glazed earthenware nesting-dish, or “nappy, ” 9 inches in diameter across the top, is strongly advised.

   • 1914, Southern Pharmaceutical Journal, Volume 7, page 626,

     Place a slice of pineapple in a fruit nappy, place on it a No. 10 cone of vanilla ice cream and pour over it a ladle of chop suey dressing, crowning it with a freshly opened lycher nut or a cherry.

Etymology 4

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Adjective

nappy (comparative nappier, superlative nappiest)

1. (of a drink) Foamy; having a large head.
2. (of a horse) Nervous, excitable.
   • 1928, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin 2013, p. 161:

     ‘He's a mutton-fisted beggar; but the horse is a bit nappy, and young Roger'll be the man to keep him going at his fences.’

   • 1948, John Edward Hance, Better Horsemanship, page 73,

     I do feel, however, that in talking lightheartedly of making rearing, pulling or nappy horses into useful members of equine society I am treading on very dangerous ground.

   • 2006, Karen Coumbe, Karen Bush, The Complete Equine Emergency Bible, page 151,

     Note that it is possible that a horse is not in fact being nappy at all, but is suffering the onset of muscle disorders: it is up to the rider to interpret the signs correctly.

   • 2007, Michael Peace, Lesley Bayley, The Q and a Guide to Understanding Your Horse, page 66,

     When riders are too dominant various problems can arise: a horse may become nappy, or refuse to go forward.

Noun

nappy (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) A kind of strong ale; nappy ale.
   • 1827, R. Charlton, Newcastle Improvements, in T. Thompson, et al. A Collection of Songs, Comic and Satirical, Chiefly in the Newcastle Dialect, page 151,

     Aw?ve seen when we?ve gyen iv a kind, freenly way / To be blithe ower a jug o? good nappy—

   • 1857, Hugh Miller, The Cruise of the Betsey, 2009, Echo Library, page 248,

     Weel do I mind that in a? our neeborly meetings—bridals, christenings, lyke-wakes an? the like,—we entertained ane anither wi? rich nappy ale; […] . But the tea has put out the nappy; an? I have remarked, that by losing the nappy we lost baith ghaists an? fairies.

Etymology 5

Related to knap.

Adjective

nappy (comparative nappier, superlative nappiest)

1. (Scotland) brittle

English

Etymology

From French veste (“a vest, jacket”), from Latin vestis (“a garment, gown, robe, vestment, clothing, vesture”), from Proto-Indo-European *wes-ti(h?)-, from *wes- (“to be dressed”) (English wear). Cognate with Sanskrit ?????? (vastra) and Spanish vestir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?st/
• Rhymes: -?st

Noun

vest (plural vests)

1. (now rare) A loose robe or outer garment worn historically by men in Arab or Middle Eastern countries.
2. (now Canada, US) A sleeveless garment that buttons down the front, worn over a shirt, and often as part of a suit; a waistcoat.
3. (Britain) A sleeveless garment, often with a low-cut neck, usually worn under a shirt or blouse.
4. A sleeveless top, typically with identifying colours or logos, worn by an athlete or member of a sports team.
5. Any sleeveless outer garment, often for a purpose such as identification, safety, or storage.
   • 2010, Thomas Mullen, The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers, Random House, ?ISBN, page 162:

     He gripped some of the shreds and pulled off his vest and the shirt beneath it, his clothing disintegrating around him. What in the hell point was there in wearing a twenty-five-pound bulletproof vest if you could still get gunned to death?

6. A vestment.
   • 1700, John Dryden, Palamon and Arcite

     In state attended by her maiden train, / Who bore the vests that holy rites require.

7. Clothing generally; array; garb.
   • 1800, William Wordsworth, [unnamed poem] (classified under Inscriptions)

     Not seldom, clad in radiant vest / Deceitfully goes forth the morn.

Synonyms

• (garment worn under a shirt): singlet, tank top (US), undershirt (US)
• (garment worn over a shirt): waistcoat (Britain)

Hyponyms

• (sleeveless outergarment): safety vest, scrimmage vest, fishing vest

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

vest (third-person singular simple present vests, present participle vesting, simple past and past participle vested)

1. (chiefly passive) To clothe with, or as with, a vestment, or garment; to dress; to robe; to cover, surround, or encompass closely.
   • 1697, John Dryden, Aeneid

     With ether vested, and a purple sky.

2. To clothe with authority, power, etc.; to put in possession; to invest; to furnish; to endow; followed by with and the thing conferred.

   to vest a court with power to try cases of life and death

   • c. 1718, Matthew Prior, “To Mr. Howard – An Ode”:

     Had thy poor breast receiv’d an equal pain; / Had I been vested with the monarch’s power; / Thou must have sigh’d, unlucky youth, in vain; / Nor from my bounty hadst thou found a cure.

3. To place or give into the possession or discretion of some person or authority; to commit to another; with in before the possessor.

   The power of life and death is vested in the king, or in the courts.

   • , Book I

     Empire and dominion […] was vested in him.

4. (obsolete) To invest; to put.

   to vest money in goods, land, or houses

5. (law) To clothe with possession; also, to give a person an immediate fixed right of present or future enjoyment of.

   to vest a person with an estate

   an estate is vested in possession

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Bouvier to this entry?)

6. (law, intransitive) (of an inheritance or a trust fund) To devolve upon the person currently entitled when a prior interest has ended.

   Upon the death of the Sovereign the Crown automatically vests in the next heir without the need of coronation or other formality.

7. (financial, intransitive) To become vested, to become permanent.

   My pension vests at the end of the month and then I can take it with me when I quit.

   • 2005, Kaye A. Thomas, Consider Your Options, page 104

     If you doubt that you'll stick around at the company long enough for your options to vest, you should discount the value for that uncertainty as well.

   • 2007, Ransey Guy Cole, Jr. (United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit), Roger Miller Music, Inc. v. Sony ATV Publishing, LLC

     Sony interpreted 17 U.S.C. § 304 as requiring that the author be alive at the start of the copyright renewal term for the author’s prior assignments to vest.

Further reading

• vest in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• vest in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• vest at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• ETVs, EVTs, vets

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?st/, [??sd?]

Etymology 1

From Old Norse vestr, from Proto-Germanic *westr?.

Noun

vest c (singular definite vesten, not used in plural form)

1. the west

Inflection

Derived terms

• nordvest
• sydvest

Adverb

vest

1. toward the west, westwards

Etymology 2

From French veste.

Noun

vest c (singular definite vesten, plural indefinite veste)

1. A vest.

Inflection

References

• “vest” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?st/
• Hyphenation: vest
• Rhymes: -?st

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch vest, veste. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

vest f (plural vesten, diminutive vestje n)

1. fortified wall, city wall
2. moat
3. boulevard

Synonyms

• veste

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French veste, from Italian veste, from Latin vestis.

Noun

vest n (plural vesten, diminutive vestje n)

1. vest, cardigan, waistcoat

Derived terms

• zwemvest

Latvian

Verb

vest (tr. or intr., 1st conj., pres. vedu, ved, ved, past vedu)

1. to lead

Conjugation

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse vestr, from Proto-Germanic *westr?.

Noun

vest n (indeclinable abbreviation, V)

2. west (compass point)

Antonyms

• øst

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Latin vestis, via French [Term?] and Italian [Term?].

Noun

vest m (definite singular vesten, indefinite plural vester, definite plural vestene)

2. a waistcoat

Derived terms

• redningsvest

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse vestr, from Proto-Germanic *westr?.

Noun

vest n (indeclinable) (abbreviation: V)

1. west (compass point)

Antonyms

• aust

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Latin vestis, via French and Italian.

Noun

vest m (definite singular vesten, indefinite plural vestar, definite plural vestane)

1. a waistcoat

Derived terms

• redningsvest

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from German West.

Noun

vest n (uncountable)

1. west

Declension

Synonyms

• apus, asfin?it, occident

Coordinate terms

• (compass points) punct cardinal;

Romansch

Etymology

From a Germanic language.

Noun

vest m

1. west

Antonyms

• ost
• oriaint

Derived terms

• nordvest
• sidvest

Related terms

• nord
• sid
• nordost
• sidost

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• (Ijekavian) vij?st

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *v?st?, from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, know, perceive”).

Noun

v?st f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. report, news

Declension

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *v?st?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?é?st/

Noun

v??st f

1. conscience

Inflection