tappish
English
Alternative forms
- tappice
- tappis
Etymology
French se tapir (“to crouch, squat”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtæpɪʃ/
Verb
tappish (third-person singular simple present tappishes, present participle tappishing, simple past and past participle tappished)
- (rare, obsolete) To squat
- [1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, OCLC 614803194; The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], volume (please specify the book number), new edition, London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, OCLC 987451361:
- As a hound that, having roused a hart, / Although he tappish ne'er so oft.
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References
- tapish in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
Anagrams
- piphats