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; The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], volume (please specify the book number), new edition, London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:
  As a hound that, having roused a hart, / Although he tappish ne'er so oft.

References

tapish in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

piphats

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