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Slap vs Skelp - What's the difference?

slap | skelp |

As nouns the difference between slap and skelp

is that slap is a blow, especially one given with the open hand, or with something broad and flat while skelp is a blow; a smart stroke or skelp can be a narrow strip of rolled or forged metal, ready to be bent and welded to form a pipe.

As verbs the difference between slap and skelp

is that slap is to give a slap while skelp is (transitive|scotland|northern england) to beat or slap.

As an adverb slap

is exactly, precisely.

slap

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A blow, especially one given with the open hand, or with something broad and flat.
  • The sound of such a blow.
  • (slang, uncountable) Makeup, cosmetics.

    • Usage notes

    Especially used of blows to the face (aggressive), buttocks, and hand, frequently as a sign of reproach. Conversely, used of friendly strikes to the back, as a sign of camaraderie.

    Hyponyms

    * cuff

    Derived terms

    * bitch-slap * slap in the face * pimp-slap

    Verb

    (slapp)
  • To give a slap.
    • She slapped him in response to the insult.
  • * 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1
    • Mrs. Flanders rose, slapped her coat this side and that to get the sand off, and picked up her black parasol.
  • To cause something to strike soundly.
    • He slapped the reins against the horse's back.
  • To place, to put carelessly.
    • We'd better slap some fresh paint on that wall.

    Derived terms

    * slapper * slap-up

    Hyponyms

    * cuff

    Adverb

    (-)
  • Exactly, precisely
    • He tossed the file down slap in the middle of the table.

    Synonyms

    * just * right * slap bang * smack dab

    Anagrams

    * (l), (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) ----

    skelp

    English

    Etymology 1

    Probably imitative.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (transitive, Scotland, northern England) To beat or slap.
  • *1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 24:
  • *:But Mistress Munro would up and be at the door and in she'd yank Andy by the lug, and some said she'd take down his breeks and skelp him, but maybe that was a lie.
  • *2008 , (James Kelman), Kieron Smith, Boy , Penguin 2009, p. 67:
  • *:My stomach was just sore and I was rubbing it. But he just reached and skelped' me on the leg and I fell down and he waited for me to get up and he ' skelped me on the b*m.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A blow; a smart stroke.
    • (Brockett)
  • (Scotland) A squall; a heavy fall of rain.

    • Etymology 2

    (wikipedia skelp)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A narrow strip of rolled or forged metal, ready to be bent and welded to form a pipe.
  • * 1836 , William Newton (editor), The London Journal of Arts and Sciences; and Repertory of Patent Inventions , pages 407-8,
    • he then heats one half of the skelp' at a time in an air furnace, or other fire, and having so heated it, he passes the '''skelp''' between a pair of grooved rollers placed at the mouth of the furnace, for the purpose of uniting (or marrying, as he terms it) the edges of the metal ; that is, causing the edges of the open part of the ' skelp to be pressed together, and made to adhere and form a complete cylinder.
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