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- noun Plural form of
kappa .
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Examples
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I had never heard of some of these creatures: rocs that feed on elephants (and will surely turn up at my next Scrabble match), kappas that steal bellybuttons while you're sleeping, or the manticore "dragon behind and man before."
Archive 2007-03-01 Heidi Hess Saxton 2007
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I had never heard of some of these creatures: rocs that feed on elephants (and will surely turn up at my next Scrabble match), kappas that steal bellybuttons while you're sleeping, or the manticore "dragon behind and man before."
Soarin' Heidi Hess Saxton 2007
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Mighty Kappa had a great fall is another of her creations where she's chopped up some boiled kappas much to the anguish of many 'Kottayamkars', along with a host of other ingredients and served it as a curry with Chapati.
Archive 2007-10-01 2007
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And another post I want to do will be pictures of kappas and kotos and biwas and tea houses.
the fruits of the land asakiyume 2007
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Mighty Kappa had a great fall is another of her creations where she's chopped up some boiled kappas much to the anguish of many 'Kottayamkars', along with a host of other ingredients and served it as a curry with Chapati.
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From Red Caps they moved on to kappas, creepy. water-dwellers that looked like scaly monkeys, with webbed hands itching to strangle unwitting waders in their ponds.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Rowling, J. K. 1999
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And you'll have to be constantly rescuing small mini-kappas the whole time, as without their health boosts and ability to construct bridges for you, you'll be dried out and left for dead.
IGN Complete 2010
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Infused with an exceedingly dry, black humor (a village of women whose husbands have gone away to work keep a monk in a sack and pass him from home to home each night) and Japanese folklore (kappas abound), the tales in
Blog@Newsarama 2009
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"We shouldn't have much difficulty with him, not after the kappas.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Rowling, J. K. 1999
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The value of the Greek letters, as numerals, in the two words above, is as follows: ” The three kappas = 60, the three omicrons = 210, the three iotas = 30, the two pis = 160, the one sigma = 200, the one epsilon = 5, and the one alpha = 1; in all exactly making 666.
My Life as an Author Tupper, Martin F 1886
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