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jaap

/ jɑːp /

noun

  1. offensive.
    a simpleton or country bumpkin
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of jaap1

from Afrikaans
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Example Sentences

Dutch war correspondent Hans-Jaap Melissen knows Syria and its conflict well.

“And start quarrelling again, with renewed courage, on the first of January,” grinned Jaap.

Jaap's own salutations were very elaborate, and altogether of a character to prevent the suspicion of our ever having met before.

Thus saying, Jaap rode on, my sister and myself doing the same, pursuing the discourse that had thus accidentally arisen among us.

Jaap had made this movement in good season, and we were compelled to row a quarter of a mile down the river to meet the sloop.

I had learned enough of Andries and his party to satisfy my curiosity, and Jaap was patiently waiting to succeed me at the table.

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