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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Having a nap; fuzzy: a nappy carpet
  2. adj. Often Offensive Tightly curled or coiled. Used of hair.
  3. n. A round, shallow cooking or serving dish with a flat bottom and sloping sides.
  4. n. Chiefly British A diaper.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Heady; strong: applied to ale or beer.
  2. Tipsy; slightly elevated or intoxicated with drink.
  3. n. Strong ale.
  4. Covered with nap; having abundance of nap on the surface: as, a nappy cloth.
  5. Brittle; easily broken.
  6. n. A round dish of earthenware or glass with a flat bottom and sloping sides.

Wiktionary

  1. n. UK, Ireland An absorbent garment worn by a baby who does not yet have voluntary control of his or her bladder and bowels or by someone who is incontinent.
  2. adj. Having a nap (of cloth etc.).
  3. adj. US, slang Of hair: tightly curled or twisted; frizzy (occasionally specifically in reference to Blacks' textured hair).
  4. n. A shallow, flat-bottomed earthenware or glass bowl with sloping sides.
  5. adj. Foamy; having a large head.
  6. adj. of a horse Nervous, excitable.
  7. n. obsolete A kind of strong ale; nappy ale.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Inclined to sleep; sleepy.
  2. adj. obsolete Tending to cause sleepiness; serving to make sleepy; strong; heady.
  3. adj. Having a nap or pile; downy; shaggy.
  4. n. A round earthen dish, with a flat bottom and sloping sides.
  5. n. Chiefly Brit. A diaper{4}.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. (of hair) in small tight curls
  2. n. garment consisting of a folded cloth drawn up between the legs and fastened at the waist; worn by infants to catch excrement

Etymologies

  1. Old English nap, Anglo-Saxon hnaep, cup, bowl. See hanaper. (Wiktionary)
  2. Probably from dialectal nap, bowl, from Middle English, from Old English hnæp.Alteration of napkin. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “The term nappy has been used repeatedly as an insult as though our natural selves are less than.”

    Archive 2009-10-01

  • “Once the nappy is on her pjs go on and then I let her bounce on the bed a little bit.”

    The bed-time routine « Mad Dave and Lil

  • “Our opposing counsel were dead asleep in nappy nap land by the time Jeff whispered, essentially, “Did you infringe our patent?” and the deponent responded in another whisper, “Yeah, I guess so.””

    PIG’S FEET is the new MUSLIM

  • “Spirits were raised when one teenage Hooray asked Mother of Hoorays for his cuddly muslin nappy and proceeded to suck his thumb, the silence was momentarily golden but after a quick fix he was back in the groove.”

    42 entries from November 2007

  • “Am I alone in thinking that the sight of a wrinkly, grey, washed-out, middle-aged man holding a tiny little pink thing in a nappy is faintly disgusting?”

    Old Men, Old Women, Young Babies

  • “I don't think anybody takes the phrase nappy-headed hos to mean that they were actually prostitutes.”

    CNN Transcript Aug 14, 2007

  • “Laura explains it as "nappy" - because they were kind of gross looking, and "kins" because that made them cuter.”

    Talking Points

  • “oh yes and the word nappy ame from Napoleon by the way luciano peroniQuote”

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Ralph R. Papitto’s Name Comes Off School:

  • “Our dog used to do the same occasionally when my kids were still in nappies (that’s diapers, for all you Northern Hemisphere-dwellers!) – sneak into a bedroom, knock the bin over, and steal a dirty nappy from the bin, then EAT IT.”

    Hillbilly Wars – Gone to the Dogs @ Attack of the Redneck Mommy

  • “They've yet -- Rutgers University, being called nappy-headed hos.”

    CNN Transcript Apr 10, 2007

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synonyms (15)

Words with the same meaning

  1. sleepy
  2. strong
  3. heady
  1. downy
  2. shaggy
  3. <er>diaper</er>
  1. rough
  2. napped
  3. pily
  1. villous
  2. fleecy
  3. cottony
  1. woolly
  2. diaper
  3. napkin

equivalents (1)

Other words for ‘nappy’

  1. curly

hypernyms (1)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. garment

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  2. muddiest
  3. greasefilte
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  2. weepy
  3. toand
  1. pro-homosexual
  2. cleer
  3. brack
  1. white-streaked
  2. selleth
  3. close-trimmed
  1. homeschooling
  2. copper-skinned

reverse dictionary (11)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. noppy
  2. cottony
  1. nappiness
  2. nappy
  1. rug-gowned
  2. rugine
  1. frizzing-machine
  2. flannel
  1. rug
  2. rugin
  1. villous

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  1. hair
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  1. British
  1. baby

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  • lampbane CNN / April 24, 2007
    Carolivia Herron is a former English professor and the author of the children's book "Nappy Hair." The book tells the story of an African-American family extolling the strength and wonder of young Brenda's natural hair while affirming her beauty and culture. Uncle Mordecai is the principal character who praises Brenda, and Herron has written the following article from the perspective of what Uncle Mordecai would say about the sullying of the word "nappy." Apr 13, 2007

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