As nouns the difference between sap and idiot
is that
sap is the juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition while
idiot is a person of low general intelligence.
As a verb sap
is to strike with a sap (with a blackjack).
As an initialism SAP
is initialism of Scientific Advisory Panel|lang=en.
sap English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) sap, from (etyl) ), from *''sap 'to taste'. More at sage.
Noun
( wikipedia sap)
(uncountable) The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
(uncountable) The sap-wood, or alburnum, of a tree.
(slang, countable) A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop; a naive person.
Derived terms
(terms derived from sap)
* crude sap
* elaborated sap
* sap ball
* sap green
* saphead
* sapling
* sap poison
* sap rot
* sapsucker
* sap tube
Etymology 2
Probably from sapling.
Noun
( en noun)
(countable, US, slang) A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.
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Verb
(sapp)
(slang) To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).
Etymology 3
From (etyl) saper (compare Spanish zapar and Italian zappare) from .
Noun
( en noun)
(military) A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.
Derived terms
* sap fagot
* sap roller
* sapper
Verb
( sapp)
To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
* (rfdate)
- Nor safe their dwellings were, for sapped by floods, / Their houses fell upon their household gods.
(military) To pierce with saps.
To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
* 1850 ,
- Ring out the grief that saps the mind
To gradually weaken.
* to sap one’s conscience
To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps — 12
* (rfdate)
- Both assaults carried on by sapping .
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idiot English
Alternative forms
* eejit
* idjit, idget (eye dialect)
Noun
( en noun)
(pejorative) A person of low general intelligence.
- usage note This may be used pejoratively, as an insult. It is a weak insult, however, and between close friends, family members, or lovers, is often completely nonaggressive.
(obsolete, medicine, psychology) A person who lacks the capacity to develop beyond the mental age of a normal four-year-old.
Synonyms
* See also
Antonyms
* genius
Related terms
* idiocy
* idiom
* idiosyncratic
* idiotic
* idiotically
* idiot savant
* useful idiot
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