Jappy

Jappy

English

Adjective

Jappy (comparative more Jappy, superlative most Jappy)

1. (slang) Japanese
   • 1959, Beatrice Plumb, The Master Banquet and Party Book, T. S. Denison & Company, pages 85

     To be really Jappy...

   • 1998-06, Eric Konigsberg, "Sex Ed.", SPIN, page 100

     They appeared to be flirting with a weak- chinned boy in fake Patagonia. "I'm not a Jap," Cocktail Dress was saying. She touched the boy's shoulder lightly. "Except I do the towel dance when I get out of the shower. Is that Jappy?"

   • 1898 (2005), George Cornwallis-West, quoted in Elizabeth Kehoe, The Titled Americans: Three American Sisters And the British Aristocratic World Into Which They Married, →ISBN, page 206

     When George moved to London later that year Jennie received him at her home, wearing a loose Japanese kimono instead of the conventional whale-boned corset and gown. The young, infatuated lieutenant wrote ecstatically of the 'lovely Jappy gown'.