tappen
Meaning
- (intransitive,weak) to pad (walk softly, quietly or steadily)
- (intransitive,weak) to grope, frisk (search by feeling)
Concepts
grope
feel
finger
touch
give off an odour
reek
sense
smell
toddle
handle
Frequency
Hyphenated as
tap‧pen
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈtapən/
Etymology
From Middle High German tāpen, from the onomatopoeic interjection tapp imitating soft walking sounds (of either animals or humans), whence also tipp tapp.
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