different between yeap vs yap

English

Etymology

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Adverb

yeap (not comparable)

1. Alternative spelling of yep
   • 2003, Rick W. White, Comes Like a Raging Fire

     I told her, "Yeap. I'm here on vacation." We both smiled, as she told me, "Me too."

   • 2009, Terri Lee Ryan, Life Is One Big To-Do List: A Woman's Life After 40

     Yeap, I'm coming back in my next life as a daughter of one of my friends. I would never have to worry about looking ugly.

Anagrams

• PAYE, Paye, Peay

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jæp/

Noun

yap (countable and uncountable, plural yaps)

1. (countable) The high-pitched bark of a small dog, or similar.
2. (uncountable, slang) Casual talk; chatter.
   • 1939, Philip George Chadwick, The Death Guard, page 59:

     Had I taken his accusations seriously I might have recommended a change in my under-managership, but I never could translate our jammy products into gas or explosives or even poison. Still yap, at least as concerned Beldite's.

   • 1989, H. T. Willetts (translator), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (author), August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ?ISBN, page 190:

     They couldn’t rise above their calls for peace. Those who weren’t “defenders of the fatherland” were incapable of anything except yap and blather about “stopping the war.”

3. (countable, slang, derogatory) The mouth, which produces speech.

4. (countable, Tyneside) A badly behaved child; a brat.

Translations

References

• Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, ?ISBN

Verb

yap (third-person singular simple present yaps, present participle yapping, simple past and past participle yapped)

1. (intransitive) Of a small dog, to bark.
2. (intransitive, slang) To talk, especially excessively; to chatter.

3. (transitive, slang) To rob or steal from (someone).

Translations

Anagrams

• APY, Pay, pay, pya

Catawba

Noun

yap

1. tree; wood

Usage notes

The word is also represented ya, yop, ya’p, yo’p.

Descendants

• English: yaupon

Finnish

Noun

yap

1. Yapese (Austronesian language spoken in the Federated States of Micronesia, especially by the inhabitants of Yap)

Declension

Synonyms

• yapin kieli

Lashi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jap/

Verb

yap

1. to stand

References

• Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid?^[1], Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis)

Pnar

Etymology

From Proto-Khasian *ja:p. Cognate with Khasi ïap.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jap/

Verb

yap

1. to die

Turkish

Verb

yap

1. second-person singular imperative of yapmak

Antonyms

• yapma