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Definition: Nappy |
NappyAdjective1. In small tight curls. Noun1. Garment consisting of a folded cloth drawn up between the legs and fastened at the waist; worn by infants to catch excrement. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: NappySynonyms: crisp (adj), frizzly (adj), frizzy (adj), kinky (adj), diaper (n), napkin (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Bubble | Adjective: bubbling. Verb: frothy, nappy, effervescent, sparkling, mousseux, up. |
Clothing | Diaper, nappy; disposable diaper, cloth diaper; Luvs, Huggies. |
Drunkenness | Adjective: drunk, tipsy; intoxicated; inebrious, inebriate, inebriated; in one's cups; in a state of intoxication;Noun: temulent, temulentive; bombed, smashed; fuddled, mellow, cut, boozy, fou, fresh, merry, elevated; flustered, disguised, groggy, beery; top-heavy; potvaliant, glorious; potulent; squiffy; overcome, overtaken; whittled, screwed, tight, primed, corned, raddled, sewed up, lushy, nappy, muddled, muzzy, obfuscated, maudlin; crapulous, dead drunk. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Nappy |
| English words defined with "nappy": Nappies ♦ Rugin ♦ Villous. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "nappy": Nappy Ale. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "nappy": Rugin. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | Hair nappy but I'm happy (Bow Wow [That's My Name]; performing artist: Lil Bow Wow) Yeah, haha Nappy Roots (Awnaw; performing artist: Nappy Roots) | |
Song Titles | Awnaw (performing artist: Nappy Roots) Po' Folks (performing artist: Nappy Roots) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Theater & Movies | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | A pitcher fill'd with nappy ale / [John Collier]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | ... the health visitor is pointing out the danger of drying a nappy before the fire ... / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by Philip Boucas.. |
 | Ntozake Shange, author of Nappy edges / p. Credit: Library of Congress; photo by Jiri Weiss.. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Nappy" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Nappy" is used about 176 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 176 | 23,410 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "nappy": disposable nappy ♦ nappy rash. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "nappy": nappy-changer, nappy-changing, nappy-making, nappy-rash. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "nappy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | skutinë, pelenë (diaper, napkin, napkins, swaddling clothes, swaddling-bands), me push (downy, piled), farkore. (various references) | |
Arabic | حفاظ لطفلة, أزغب (downy, hairy), شراب مسكر (boose, booze, brandy, champagne, drink, drinking, inebriant, intoxicant, medicine, peg, pot, rum). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | силен (acute, athletic, beefy, emphatic, energetic, flush, forceful, forcible, foul-mouthed, full, generous, hard, heavy, high, intense, invulnerable, iron, loud, lusty, main, male, mighty, muscled, muscular, nervous, nervy, perishing, pithy, potent, powerful, rattling, robust, short, shrewd, smacking, smart, sounding, stark, stiff, strong, sturdy, swingeing, telling, tenacious, thumping, thundering, torrid, two-fisted, vehement, vigorous), пенест (barmy, foamy, frothy, scummy, soapy, sudsy), пелена (diaper). (various references) | |
Czech | plína, ospalý (dopey, dozy, drowsy, languorous, sleepy, slumberous, somnolent, soporific), dìtská plenka. (various references) | |
Danish | bleindlaeg (brief liner, diaper, napkin, napkin liner), ble (diaper, napkin, napkin liner). (various references) | |
Dutch | luier (swaddling cloth), inlegluier (diaper, napkin, napkin liner). (various references) | |
French | maillot, lange (napkin, napkin liner), fort, couche pour bébé, couche (napkin). (various references) | |
German | windel (diaper, napkin). (various references) | |
Greek | πάνα (diaper). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מפיו ת (serviette), חתול (bandage, cat, diaper, napkin, wrapping), צלחת שטוח". (various references) | |
Hungarian | pelenka (diaper, didy). (various references) | |
Italian | pannolino (diaper, napkin). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 襁" (diaper, swaddling), お襁" (diaper), 御襁" (diaper). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おしめ (diaper, dip, swaddling, weakness), おむつ (diaper), むつき (diaper, first month of lunar calendar, swaddling). (various references) | |
Manx | paggan (bib). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | appynay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | fralda (diaper, flap, lap, lappet, skirt). (various references) | |
Romanian | scãmos (fibrous, fuzzy, piled), scãmoşat (ravelled). (various references) | |
Russian | ворсистый (fluffy, piled, shaggy), подгузник (diaper), пеленка (napkin). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | sanjiv (dozy, sleepy, slumberous), penušav (barmy, foamy, frothy, scummy, sparkling, spumous, spumy), opojan (humming, intoxicating, narcotic, opiate), jako pivo (stingo), dremljiv (drowsy, snoozing), čupav (ragged, rough). (various references) | |
Spanish | pañal (diaper, napkin, swaddling cloth). (various references) | |
Swedish | blöja (diaper, napkin). (various references) | |
Thai | ผ้าอ้อม. (various references) | |
Turkish | yayık tabak, tüylü (downy, feathered, feathery, haired, hairy, hirsute, penniferous, pilose, pilous, plumed, plumose, plumy, pubescent, woolly), sert (acrid, adamant, astringent, austere, bad, bitter, boisterous, bossy, brisk, brutal, cast iron, crusty, cutting, drastic, exact, exacting, fierce, firm, flinty, forbidding, get-tough, granitic, grim, gruff, gusty, hard, hard and fast, hard bitten, hard line, hard set, hardening, hard-hitting, harsh, heady, heavy, heavy-handed, hot, ill natured, inclement, incompressible, inelastic, intemperate, iron, ironclad, keen, pointed, pungent, rigid, rigorous, rough, round, sclerous, severe, sharp, sharp-set, short, short-spoken, shrewd, smart, solid, sound, spanking, spartan, spiky, stand up, starched, starchy, stark, stern, stiff, strict, stringent, strong, surly, tart, tough, unbending, ungentle, unkind, unrelenting, unshaded, unyielding, vehement, violent), sarhoş (bacchant, beery, besotted, blind drunk, blotto, bombed, boozed, boozer, boozy, canned, cockeyed, corked, drunk, drunkard, drunken, fried, groggy, high, intoxicated, jagged, lit, lit up, loaded, oiled, pickled, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, queer, screwed, sloshed, smashed, sodden, sot, sottish, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stewed, stiff, stinking, stinko, stoned, tanked, tight, under the influence, under the influence of drink, under the weather, well oiled, winy, woozy, zonked), havlı (downy), bebek bezi (diaper, napkin), çiş bezi. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | хмільне (barrel), підгузок. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "nappy": snappy. (additional references) | |
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"Nappy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Anpp, appy, Iapyx, Mappy, Nahpo, Napap, napey, napir, napp, nappa, nappey, nappie, napy, naypic, neapy, nepp, Neppe, nipi, nipy, noply, Npy, rappy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-n-p-p-y" | |
-2 letters: any, nap, nay, pan, pap, pay, pya, yap. | |
-3 letters: an, ay, na, pa, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-n-p-p-y" | |
+1 letter: snappy. | |
+2 letters: panoply, papayan, playpen, unhappy, yapping. | |
+3 letters: apophony, applying, epiphany, hypopnea, pansophy, papyrian, papyrine, pattypan, playpens, polypnea, popinjay, snappily. | |
+4 letters: appetency, flippancy, hyperpnea, hypopneas, paranymph, pattypans, polypneas, popinjays, prepaying, unhappily. | |
+5 letters: apparently, flippantly, hyperplane, hyperpneas, naprapathy, paranymphs, prepayment, reapplying, sandpapery, snappishly, tryptophan. | |
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