happig

Signification (Anglais)

  1. steep; insolently expensive
  2. unacceptable; insolent

Concepts

Traductions

fahiş

Prononcé comme (IPA)
/ˈhapɪç/
Étymologie (Anglais)

In summary

Originally, "greedy, excessive, difficult to swallow", 18th-century creation apparently from happ, imitative of the sound of snapping. Possibly borrowed from German Low German; compare Low German happen, happen (“to snap, to devour”). Related to German Happen (“bite-sized piece, bite”).

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