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tappy

tappy adjective: resembling a tapping sound.

Adjective

tappy (comparative more tappy, superlative most tappy)

  1. Resembling a tapping sound.
    • a tappy noise

Verb

tappy (third-person singular simple present tappies, present participle tappying, simple past and past participle tappied)

  1. (obsolete) to lie close to the ground; to lie low or skulk

Proper noun capitalized: Tappy

Tappy

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of Tapti (“Indian river”).

Forms of tappy

Adjective
comparativemore tappy
superlativemost tappy
Verb
third-person singular presenttappies
present participletappying
past participletappied
pasttappied

Origin of tappy

From tap + -y.

See tappish.

Questions about tappy

What does tappy mean?
Tappy means resembling a tapping sound.
What part of speech is tappy?
Tappy can be an adjective, a verb or a proper noun.

Words near tappy in the dictionary

  1. tappit hen
  2. tappit hens
  3. tappoon
  4. tappoons
  5. Tapps
  6. tappy
  7. tappy-lappy
  8. tappying
  9. Taprobana
  10. Taprobane
  11. taproom

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