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Yapp

//jæp// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname transferred from the nickname.
Noun
  1. 1
    In bookbinding, the edge of the binding that extends beyond the edges of the pages, and may protect the gilding.

Etymology

Etymology 1

Said to be from Yapp, the surname of the 19th-century bookbinder who invented them.

Etymology 2

Nickname for a clever or cunning person, from Middle English yap (“deceitful, shrewd”), from Old English gēap (“crooked, bent; devious, cunning”).

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