ept

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English

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Etymology 1

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Back-formation from inept; compare apt.

Adjective

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ept (comparative more ept, superlative most ept)

  1. (nonstandard or humorous) Skillful and knowledgeable; adept.
    • 1984, Military Intelligence - Volumes 10-12, page 62:
      These behaviors, developed in extremely bad basic and advanced training conditions were continued in better situations under more ept leadership.
    • 1991, United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Ethics, Preliminary Inquiry Into Allegations Regarding Senators Cranston, DeConcini, Glenn, McCain, and Riegle, and Lincoln Savings and Loan:
      ...known the ways of the world in Washington, and may not have been as one of my colleagues in the legislature said, "very ept", when it came to this stuff.
    • 1991, Anne Geller, M. J. Territo, Restore your life: a living plan for sober people, page 133:
      They're confident, calm, at ease, talkative, cheerful, and above all, socially very "ept."
    • 2003, Dana Stabenow, A Grave Denied, →ISBN, page 119:
      And someone who wasn't glacier ept might have thought the mouth of a glacier a great place to hide a body for a long, long time.

Etymology 2

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Formed by analogy with slept.

Verb

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ept

  1. (Internet slang, humorous) simple past of eep

Anagrams

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Old Norse

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Proto-Norse ᛡᚠᚨᛏᛉ (ᴀfatʀ /⁠afᵃtr⁠/), from earlier Proto-Norse ᚨᚠᛏᛖᚱ (after), from Proto-Germanic *aftiri (more aft, further behind), *after, from Proto-Indo-European *apotero (further behind, further away), comparative form of *apo- (off, behind). Compare also aptr.

Adverb

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ept

  1. after
    • 800s, Rök runestone
      Æft Vāmōð standa rūnaʀ þāʀ, æn Varinn fāði, faðiʀ æft fæigjan sonu []
      After Vámóðr these runes stand, but Varinn painted them, the father after the death-doomed son.
    • 900s, Ynglingatal, verse 2
      [] þás í stein / hinn stórgeði / Dusla konr / ept dvergi hljóp. []
      when the great-minded offspring of Dusli [= Sveigðir] ran into the rock after the dwarf.