tappish

English

Alternative forms

• tappice
• tappis

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] French se tapir (“to crouch, squat”).

Verb

tappish (third-person singular simple present tappishes, present participle tappishing, simple past and past participle tappished)

1. (rare, archaic) To lie close to the ground, so as to be concealed.
   • Chapman

     As a hound that, having roused a hart, / Although he tappish ne'er so soft.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “tappish”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• piphats