knap
Betekenis
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- attractive, handsome, pretty
- impressive, decent, rather good or big
- smart, intelligent, gifted, clever
- (archaic) lissom, agile, brisk, fresh
- (archaic) tight-fitting, shapely
- (archaic) tight (of a budget), scarce
Frequentie
Uitgesproken als (IPA)
/knɑp/
Etymologie
Ca. 1500. A word originally found only in Dutch and Low German; compare Middle Low German knap, whence German knapp, Danish knap, Swedish knapp, all “scarce, scant”, also “tight-fitting, small” (of clothes). From the last, Dutch derived “attractive, pretty”, which was then further generalised; cf. semantically German schmücken (“to embellish", originally "to fit tightly”). Further origin unknown. Perhaps comparable to Ancient Greek κνάπτω (knáptō, “to card wool”), κνέφαλλον (knéphallon, “flock, wool”), in the sense of "tight-fitting, shapely."
Nieuw
knappen
to crack
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