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yenap

yenap is the alternative form of yennep.

Meaning of yennep

Noun

yennep (plural yenneps)

  1. (obsolete, costermongers) A penny.
    • To discover the kind of entertainment, a lad near me and my companion was asked "if there was any flash dancing." With a knowing wink the boy answered "Lots! show their legs and all, prime!" and immediately the boy followed up this information by a request for a "yennep" to get a "tib of occabot."1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, volume 1, Of the "Penny Gaff", page 41

Forms of yenap

pluralyenaps

Questions about yenap

What is yenap the alternative form of?
Yenap is the alternative form of yennep.

Words near yenap in the dictionary

  1. Yenagoa
  2. Yenakiyeve
  3. Yenakiyevo
  4. Yenan
  5. Yenangyaung
  6. yenap
  7. yenaps
  8. Yenbo
  9. Yench
  10. Yencheng
  11. Yenchi

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