vap

English

Etymology

See vapid.

Noun

vap (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) That which is vapid, insipid, or lifeless; especially, the lifeless part of liquor or wine.
   • (Can we date this quote by Jeremy Taylor and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     In vain it is to wash a goblet, if you mean to put it nothing but the dead lees and vap of wine.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “vap”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• AVP, PVA, VPA, pav

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Antillean Creole

Noun

vap

1. moodiness; bad mood

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Volapük

Noun

vap (nominative plural vaps)

1. gas

Declension

declension of vap

	singular	plural
nominative	vap	vaps
genitive	vapa	vapas
dative	vape	vapes
accusative	vapi	vapis
vocative 1	o vap!	o vaps!
predicative 2	vapu	vapus

• ¹ status as a case is disputed
• ² in later, non-classical Volapük only