Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
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tappish .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb Obs. or Prov. Eng. To lie close to the ground, so as to be concealed; to squat; to crouch; hence, to hide one's self.
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Examples
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The Manchester Committee and Mr. Wallis protested against this red tapish interference.
Rides on Railways Samuel Sidney 1848
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Nay I myself, am I the worse for being of a feeble order of intelligence; what the irreverent speculative, world calls barren, red-tapish, limited, and even intrinsically dark and small, and if it must be said, stupid?
Latter-Day Pamphlets Thomas Carlyle 1838
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