napping

• Homophone: knapping
• Rhymes: -æpɪŋ

napping

1. present participle of nap

• catch napping

napping (plural nappings)

1. The act of taking a nap or short sleep.
   • 1993, Thomas T. Yoshikawa, ‎Elizabeth Lipton Cobbs, ‎Kenneth Brummel-Smith, Ambulatory geriatric care (page 552)

     Poor or inadequate sleep hygiene may contribute to difficulty falling asleep and may be a factor in sleep onset insomnia for elderly persons. This is most frequently caused by haphazard and irregular nappings.

2. The act or process of raising a nap, as on cloth.

• nappyng, nappunge, nappinge, nappynge

From Old English hnappung; equivalent to nappen +‎ -ing.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnapinɡ/

napping

1. (rare) Sleep, napping, slumbering.
2. (rare) Sleepiness, tiredness.

• “napping(e (ger.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-30.