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Snatched vs Napped - What's the difference?

snatched | napped |

As verbs the difference between snatched and napped

is that snatched is (snatch) while napped is (nap).

snatched

English

Verb

(head)
  • (snatch)

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    snatch

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) snacchen, snecchen, from (etyl) . Related to snack.

    Verb

  • To grasp quickly.
  • To attempt to seize something suddenly; to catch.
  • To take or seize hastily, abruptly, or without permission or ceremony.
    • to snatch a kiss
  • * Alexander Pope
    • when half our knowledge we must snatch , not take
  • To grasp and remove quickly.
  • * 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 2
    • "How many times have I told you?" she cried, and seized him and snatched his stick away from him.
  • * Thomson
    • Snatch me to heaven.
  • To steal.
  • (by extension) To take a victory at the last moment.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 13, author=Alistair Magowan, work=BBC Sport
    • , title= Sunderland 0-1 Man Utd , passage=But, with United fans in celebratory mood as it appeared their team might snatch glory, they faced an anxious wait as City equalised in stoppage time.}}
  • To do something quickly due to limited time available.
  • * , chapter=10
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room. Listening here was as pleasant as talking; just to watch was pleasant. The young priests who lived here wore cassocks and birettas; their faces were fine and mild, yet really strong, like the rector's face; and in their intercourse with him and his wife they seemed to be brothers.}}
    Synonyms
    * grab * See also
    Derived terms
    * snatcher * purse snatcher * (l)

    Noun

    (es)
  • A quick grab or catch.
    • The leftfielder makes a nice snatch to end the inning.
  • (weightlifting) A competitive weightlifting event in which a barbell is lifted from the platform to locked arms overhead in a smooth continuous movement.
  • A piece of some sound, usually music or conversation.
    • I heard a snatch of Mozart as I passed the open window.
  • A vulva.
  • * 1962 , Douglas Woolf, Wall to Wall , Grove Press, page 83,
    • Claude, is it true what they say about Olovia? Of course she’s getting a little old for us—what about Marilyum, did you try her snatch ?
  • * 1985 , Jackie Collins, Lucky , Simon and Schuster, ISBN 0671524933, page 150,
    • Roughly Santino ripped the sheet from the bed, exposing all of her. She had blond hair on her snatch , which drove him crazy. He was partial to blondes.
  • * 2008 , Jim Craig, North to Disaster , Bushak Press, ISBN 0961711213, page 178,
    • “You want me to ask Brandy to let you paint her naked body with all this gooey stuff to make a mold of her snatch ?”
    Synonyms
    * (vagina) cunt, twat

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (es)
  • The handle of a scythe; a snead.
    • (Webster 1913)

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    napped

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (nap)

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    nap

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) nappen, from (etyl) ).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A short period of sleep, especially one during the day
    • Synonyms
    * See also
    Derived terms
    * catnap * dirt nap
    See also
    See for collocations of nap

    Verb

    (napp)
  • to have a nap; to sleep for a short period of time, especially during the day
  • to be off one's guard
  • * Hudibras
    • I took thee napping , unprepared.
    The regulators were caught napping by the financial collapse.
    Derived terms
    * catch napping
    Synonyms
    * snooze * doze

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) , from (etyl)

    Noun

    (-)
  • A soft or fuzzy surface on fabric or leather.
  • * 1591 , , by William Shakespeare
    • I tell thee, Jack Cade the clothier means to dress the commonwealth, and turn it, and set a new nap upon it.
  • *1851 ,
    • On his long, gaunt body, he carried no spare flesh, no superfluous beard, his chin having a soft, economical nap' to it, like the worn ' nap of his broad-brimmed hat.
  • * 1939 , (Raymond Chandler), The Big Sleep , Penguin 2011, p. 37:
    • There were low bookshelves, there was a thick pinkish Chinese rug in which a gopher could have spent a week without showing his nose above the nap .

    Verb

    (napp)
  • to form or raise a soft or fuzzy surface on (fabric or leather)

    • Etymology 3

    * From the name of the French emperor Napoleon I of France (Bonaparte)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (British) A type of bet in British horse racing, based on the experts' best tips
  • (uncountable, games) A card game in which players take tricks; properly (Napoleon)
    • Derived terms
    * go nap

    Etymology 4

    possibly Scandanavian, cognate with nab, see Swedish

    Verb

    (napp)
  • (obsolete) to grab; to nab
    • Derived terms
    * kidnap

    Etymology 5

    From (etyl) napper, from .

    Verb

    (napp)
  • (cooking) To cover (something) with a sauce (usually in passive)
  • * 2006 , Wayne Gisslen, Mary Ellen Griffin, Professional Cooking for Canadian Chefs? :
    • Vanilla ice cream topped with a poached or canned pear half, napped with chocolate sauce, and garnished with toasted sliced almonds.

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