Lappet

Definition: Lappet

Lappet

Noun

1. A fleshy wrinkled and often brightly colored fold of skin hanging from the neck or throat of certain birds (chickens and turkeys) or lizards.

2. A small lap on a garment or headdress.

3. Medium-sized hairy moths; larvae are lappet caterpillars.

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Date "lappet" was first used: sometime around 1425. (references)

Industry

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Lappet

Adjunct

Rider, offshoot, episode, side issue, corollary; piece; flap, lappet, skirt, embroidery, trappings, cortege; tail, suffix; (sequel); wing.

Crosswords: Lappet

Portuguese (lappet).

Then she set me on a table, where I showed her my hanger all bloody, and wiping it on the lappet of my coat, returned it to the scabbard

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "lappet": lappet caterpillar ♦ lappet moth. Additional references.

Beginning with "lappet": lappet-faced.

Albanian

llapë e veshit (Concha, earflaps, earlap, earlobe, Pinna), llapë (flap, tongue), palë (cuff, fly, gathers, hem, lap, pair, pendant, reef, roll, turn up), kind. (various references)

Arabic 

‏طية (flexure, fold, gather, lap, plait, plica, queue, recess, tuck, wrap). (various references)

Bulgarian 

свободна дипла, гънка от тлъстини, гънка от месо, обица (earring, pendant, wattle), долна месеста част (lap). (various references)

Czech

cíp (tip). (various references)

Danish

lappet. (various references)

Dutch

pijnboomvlinder (pine lappet moth, pine moth), pijnboomspinner (pine lappet moth, pine moth), dennespinner (pine lappet moth, pine moth). (various references)

Finnish

lappet. (various references)

French

lappets, revers (lapel), entourage. (various references)

German

Hautlappen (lappets). (various references)

Greek 

πτερό ενδύματοσ, φτερό ενδύματοσ. (various references)

Hungarian

hajtóka (cuff, facings, flap, handcar, lapel, turn up, turn-up). (various references)

Italian

lappet. (various references)

Korean 

래핏. (various references)

Manx

cleayshag. (various references)

Pig Latin

appetlay.(various references)

Portuguese

lappet, lapela (lapel), fralda (diaper, flap, lap, skirt), dobra (crease, crinkle, crumple, double, fold, folding, gather, kink, lap, meander, plait, pleat, plica, ply, ruck, turnback, turn-down, turnover, winding, wrinkle), aba (basque, brim, coast, edge, foot, lap, lip, rim, shoulder, tab, tail). (various references)

Romanian

clapetã (register). (various references)

Russian 

складка (corrugation, crease, fold, plait, plica, plication, ply, ruck, tuck, wrinkle). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

limena pločica na bravi, skut (skirt, train), rever (lapel), režanj (slice), peš (miller's thumb), okrajak (heel, selvage, selvedge), kraj (beside, by, corner, end, finish, heelpiece, landscape, last, parts, tail, tail end, termination, terminus). (various references)

Spanish

lappet. (various references)

Swedish

trådförarlist i ringtvinnmaskin (lappet of a ring doubling and twisting frame, pig tail of a ring doubling and twisting frame), tallspinnare (pine lappet moth, pine moth). (various references)

Turkish

sarkan parça, sarkık şey. (various references)

Vietnamese 

vạt áo (lap). (various references)

Welsh

llabed (flap, lapel). (various references)

lappe. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "lappet": lappeted, lappets. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Lappet" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Alpnet, Alpspitz, Klappert, Lampett, lape, lapet, lapew, leapeth, Leppert, lipet, Lipetz, Lippe, Lippert, Lippett, Lipyatt, lopet, loppet, Lupetz, Lyppiatt, Plappert, Wappett. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: appel, apple, leapt, lepta, palet, pepla, petal, plate, pleat, tepal.

-2 letters: late, leap, lept, pale, palp, pate, peal, peat, pelt, plat, plea, tael, tale, tape, teal, tela, tepa.

-3 letters: ale, alp, alt, ape, apt, ate, eat, eta, lap, lat, lea, let, pal, pap, pat, pea, pep, pet, tae, tap, tea, tel.

-4 letters: ae, al.

+1 letter: lappets, palpate, upleapt.

+2 letters: lappeted, oppilate, palpated, palpates, pamphlet, pieplant, populate, preplant, tailpipe, tippable.

+3 letters: appellant, appellate, applecart, flappiest, haplotype, oppilated, oppilates, palpitate, pamphlets, papillate, papillote, periplast, perpetual, pieplants, popliteal, populated, populates, preputial, stoppable, tailpipes.

+4 letters: apoplectic, apparently, appellants, applecarts, appositely, depopulate, epitaphial, haplotypes, palimpsest, palpitated, palpitates, papillotes, participle, pentaploid, perceptual, periplasts, platypuses, prenuptial, propellant, repopulate, strippable, supplanted, supplanter, supplicate.