Dap vs Dana - What's the difference?
dap | dana |
(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.
of uncertain origin.
(chiefly, US) derived from the surname.
* 1971 J. Anthony Lukas, Don't Shoot — We Are Your Children , Random House, ISBN 0394462874, page 419:
usually interpreted as a form of Daniel, taken to use in the twentieth century; possibly borrowed from eastern Europe.
A village in Illinois
A town in Indiana
A city/town in Iowa
As a noun dap
is baptism.As a verb dana is
to damn.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.
Anagrams
* English onomatopoeias ----dana
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Johnie had become a "problem" for the advosers and "baby deans" in University Hall: men with marvelously Puritan names like Dana Cotton and Christopher Wadsworth called him in and asked what the trouble was.
