Dah vs Dap - What's the difference?
dah | dap |
(Bristol, Wales, usually in plural) A plimsoll.
* 1988, , Penguin Books (1988), page 169:
(Bristol) To run or go somewhere quickly.
To do some form of dipping, dabbing, or bouncing action.
As nouns the difference between dah and dap
is that dah is the spoken representation of a dash in radio and telegraph Morse code while dap is a plimsoll.As a verb dap is
to run or go somewhere quickly.dap
English
Noun
(en noun)- I somehow expected them to shout obscenities, and was glad I had come ordinarily dressed, in a sports shirt, an old linen jacket, jeans and daps .
Verb
(dapp)- I'll just dap down to the shop.
- in metalworking is the technique of creating a hollow indentation, also known as doming, dishing or dapping .
- dapping is to rebound or adopt a rebounding action, e.g. to fish by letting the bait dip and bob lightly onto the water, in the manner that some insects lay eggs in the water.