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knappe

1. Inflected form of knap

knappe

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of knappen

• kappen

• Rhymes: -apə

knappe

1. inflected form of knapp

From Old English cnapa.

knappe

1. Alternative form of knape

From Old English cnæp; derived from Proto-Germanic *knappô; related to knape.

• knap, cnappe, cnap

• IPA^(key): /knap/

knappe (plural knappes)

1. knob, bump, bud
2. lump, bunch
3. knot, tie
4. (vulgar) testicle
   • c. 1425, May no man, line 13:

     but ȝyf he haue a tent of xv enche wyt letheryn knappes

     But if he has a dick with fifteen-inch white leather balls

• English: knap
• Scots: knap (in part)

• “knap(pe (n.(1))” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-23.

Possibly onomatopoeic.

• knap

• IPA^(key): /ˈknap(ə)/

knappe

1. A vigourous strike or smiting.

• knappen

• English: knap

• “knap(pe (n.(2))” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-23.

knappe

1. absolute definite natural masculine form of knapp.