vap

English

Etymology

See vapid.

Noun

vap (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) That which is vapid, insipid, or lifeless; especially, the lifeless part of liquor or wine.
    • Jeremy Taylor
      In vain it is to wash a goblet, if you mean to put it nothing but the dead lees and vap of wine.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for vap in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Antillean Creole

Noun

vap

  1. moodiness; bad mood

Volapük

Noun

vap (nominative plural vaps)

  1. gas

Declension
declension of vap
singular plural
nominative vap vaps
genitive vapa vapas
dative vape vapes
accusative vapi vapis
vocative 1 o vap! o vaps!
predicative 2 vapu vapus
  • 1 status as a case is disputed
  • 2 in some later, non-classical Volapük only
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