Dipped vs Dapped - What's the difference?
dipped | dapped |
(dip)
That has been briefly immersed in a liquid.
Of headlights: lowered.
(archaic, colloquial) Caught up in debt; mortgaged.
*1705 , (Bernard Mandeville), The Fable of the Bees :
*:The Lawyers [...] Opposed all Registers, that Cheats / Might make more Work with dipt Estates [...].
(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 verbs the difference between dipped and dapped
is that dipped is (dip) while dapped is (dap).As an adjective dipped
is that has been briefly immersed in a liquid.dipped
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)dapped
English
Verb
(head)dap
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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.