flap
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Middle English flap, flappe (“a slap; blow; buffet; fly-flap; something flexible or loose; flap”), related to Saterland Frisian Flappert (“wing, flipper”), 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.
Inflected forms:
form: flaps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: flaps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: flapping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: flapped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: flapped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Anything broad and flexible that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved.
pos: noun
examples: a flap of a garment
The envelope flap seemed curiously wrinkled.
Again, Beside these parts destin'd to divers offices, there is a peculiar provision for the wind-pipe, that is, a cartilagineous flap upon the opening of the Larynx or Throttle, which hath an open cavity for the admiffion of the air
The hairs guide the pollinating insect to the base of the petal, where there is a purplish nectary covered by a flap of tissue.
gloss: A hinged leaf.
pos: noun
examples: the flaps of a table
the flap of a shutter
gloss: A hinged surface on the trailing edge of the wings of an aeroplane, used to increase lift and drag.
pos: noun
gloss: A side fin of a ray.
pos: noun
gloss: The motion of anything broad and loose, or a sound or stroke made with it.
pos: noun
examples: the flap of a sail
the flap of a wing
Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.
gloss: A controversy, scandal, stir, or upset.
pos: noun
examples: The comment caused quite a flap in the newspapers.
“[…] We saw him vanish right in front of the rest of us. He was there and then he wasn’t. We were to wait for a year for his return or for some message. We waited. Nothing.” / Calvin, his voice cracking: “Jeepers, sir. You must have been in sort of a flap.”
The current Middlesex grand jury […] is once again on the case, partly as the result of the public flap created by Brill's death and, of course, by the series of articles written by Corsetti in the month after Brill's demise.
gloss: A consonant sound made by a single muscle contraction, such as the sound /ɾ/ in the standard American English pronunciation of body.
pos: noun
gloss: A piece of tissue incompletely detached from the body, as an intermediate stage of plastic surgery.
pos: noun
gloss: The labia, the vulva.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
slang
vulgar
gloss: A blow or slap (especially to the face).
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: 1450, Palladius on Husbondrieː
Ware the horn and heels lest they fling a flap to thee.
a1500 The Prose Merlinː
The squire lift up his hand and gave him such a flap that all they in the chapel might it hear.
gloss: A young prostitute.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Fall to your flap, my Masters, kisse and clip. […] Come hither, you foule flappes.
gloss: A connected component of the induced subgraph formed by deleting a set of vertices.
pos: noun
gloss: To move (something broad and loose) up and down.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The crow slowly flapped its wings.
Startled, the wood pigeon flew off, its wings flapping noisily.
He could be flapping his tongue about you right this minute to anybody who'll bloody listen.
gloss: To move loosely back and forth.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The flag flapped in the breeze.
gloss: For a goalkeeper to weakly attempt to play a flighted ball with the hands, failing to control it.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Former Turkey goalkeeper Rustu Recber flapped at his first Delap throw but was given a soft free-kick by referee Antony Gautier.
gloss: To pronounce (something) as a flap consonant.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To be pronounced with a flap consonant.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To be advertised as being available and then unavailable (or available by different routes) in rapid succession.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Related words: fold
lappet
Derived words: alloflap
beef flaps
beflapped
bookflap
butter flap
cap-flap
cat flap
cellar flap
cowl flap
dog flap
doorflap
earflap
eyeflap
fanny flaps
fireman's flap
flap copy
flap doodle
flap-doodle
flap-eared
flap gate
flapjack
flapless
flaplike
flapling
flappish
flappity
flappy
flaps and seals
flap seat
flap steak
flaptrack
flip-flap
flyflap
French flap
Gundersen flap
Gurney flap
in a flap
Krueger flap
lip flap
majestic flap-flap
majestic flap flap
majestic sea flap flap
majestic sea flap-flap
meat flaps
miniflap
mudflap
mud flap
mutton flaps
nan flap
pet flap
piss flap
piss-flap
plap
roof flap
swirl flap
tail flap
Zap flap
aflap
flap off
flap one's gums
flap one's lips
flapper
flapping hinge
flappingly
unflappable
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