flap

Significado (English)

Noun

1. Anything broad and flexible that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved.
2. A hinged leaf.
3. A hinged surface on the trailing edge of the wings of an aeroplane, used to increase lift and drag.
4. A side fin of a ray.
5. The motion of anything broad and loose, or a sound or stroke made with it.
6. A controversy, scandal, stir, or upset.
7. A consonant sound made by a single muscle contraction, such as the sound /ɾ/ in the standard American English pronunciation of body.
8. A piece of tissue incompletely detached from the body, as an intermediate stage of plastic surgery.
9. (slang) The labia, the vulva.
10. (obsolete) A blow or slap (especially to the face).
11. (obsolete) A young prostitute.

Verb

1. To move (something broad and loose) up and down.
2. To move loosely back and forth.
3. To pronounce (something) as a flap consonant.
4. To be pronounced with a flap consonant.
5. To be advertised as being available and then unavailable (or available by different routes) in rapid succession.

Synonyms

flutter

wave

👋

beat

flapping

wag

flop

lap

slap

swing

fuss

fan

clap

👏

strike

pother

fly

✈️

dither

flicker

valve

stroke

puff up

fluttering

shake

tizzy

bang

lash

undulate

swell up

flit

sweep

baffle

tab

agitate

blink

blow

vibrate

waver

flaps

movement

brandish

panel

flick

bat

🦇

nictate

crack

excitement

flitter

roll

skirt

agitation

smack

apron

hang down

screen

section

siding

sing

slat

spat

stewing

stick up

strip

sway

swish

tap

tip

train

🚋

tremble

twitch

uproar

wave about

whip

wiggle

winnow

worry

become excited

landing flap

move to and fro

blow about

blink away

rise one end

palpebrate

skin flap

detachable cap

guard board

splash plate

splash board

strip coating

back plate

hanging piece

swing loosely

bumper plate

manger board

strippable coating

T.E. flap

trailing edge flap

stop plate

repelling board

stop

🛑

dam board

baffle plate

beating

beckon

biff

blade

blind

brim

buffer

burden

chatter

clapper

🎬

clatter

cloth

clout

commotion

cuffs

discomposure

distraction

droop

duster

eliminator

fermentation

fidget

fin

flacker

flapper

flashing

flipper

🐬

fold

gutter

handhold

hang around

hold up

hover

inflammation

jerk

kick

lapel

lappet

leaflet

lid

luff

oscillate

pinion

plug

plump

prompt

rag

rattle

remind

riffle

Pronúnciase como (IPA)

/flæp/

Etimoloxía (English)

Inherited from Middle English: flap

Cognate with Saterfriesisch: Flappert

Cognate with Middle Dutch: flabbe

Cognate with neerlandés: flap

Cognate with Middle Low German: flabbe

Inherited from Middle English: flappen

Cognate with neerlandés: flappen

Cognate with alemán: flappen

Cognate with neerlandés: flabberen

In summary

From Middle English flap, flappe (“a slap; blow; buffet; fly-flap; something flexible or loose; flap”), related to Saterland Frisian Flappert (“wing, flipper”), Middle Dutch flabbe (“a blow; slap on the face; fly-flap; flap”) (modern Dutch flap (“flap”)), Middle Low German flabbe, vlabbe, flebbe, from the verb (see below). Related also to English flab and flabby.