Napped vs Sapped - What's the difference?

napped | sapped |

As verbs the difference between napped and sapped

is that napped is (nap) while sapped is (sap).

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

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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sapped

English

Verb

(head)

(sap)

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.

(rfimage)

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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