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lanyap

lanyap is the alternative spelling of lagniappe.

Meaning of lagniappe

Noun

lagniappe (plural lagniappes)

  1. (Louisiana, Trinidad-and-Tobago, Mississippi) An extra or unexpected gift or benefit, such as that given to customers when they purchase something.
    • Lefe had been successful, and was supposed to have amassed quite a "pile," which he was very loth indeed to part with; and when he lost, if the money were not absolutely staked, would usually put off the winner with some old horse that he had fixed up for sale, or a dubious note that he had...1852 March, “an ex-Texan”, “South-Western Scenes. … No. III.—More Beef than Venison and More Plague than Profit.”, in Democratic Review, volume XXX, number III (CLXV from the start), Washington...
    Synonyms:
    bonus, brotus, pasella, tilly

Forms of lanyap

plurallanyaps

Questions about lanyap

What is lanyap the alternative spelling of?
Lanyap is the alternative spelling of lagniappe.

Words near lanyap in the dictionary

  1. Lanuza
  2. Lanuzas
  3. Lanuéjols
  4. lanx
  5. Lanxang
  6. lanyap
  7. lanyappe
  8. lanyappes
  9. lanyaps
  10. lanyard
  11. lanyard class

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