knappe

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knappe

1. inflection of knap:
   1. masculine/feminine singular attributive
   2. definite neuter singular attributive
   3. plural attributive

knappe

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of knappen

• kappen

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• Rhymes: -apə

knappe

1. inflection of knapp:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

From Old English cnæp; derived from Proto-Germanic *knappô; related to knape.

• knap, cnappe, cnap

• IPA^(key): /knap/

knappe (plural knappes)

2. knob, bump, bud
3. lump, bunch
4. knot, tie
5. (vulgar) testicle
   • c. 1425, May no man, line 13:

     but ȝyf he haue a tent of xv enche wyt letheryn knappes

     But if he has a dick with fifteen-inch white leather balls

• English: knap
• Scots: knap (in part)
• → Welsh: cnap

• “knap(pe, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 23 April 2018.

Possibly onomatopoeic.

• knap

• IPA^(key): /ˈknap(ə)/

knappe

2. A vigourous strike or smiting.

• knappen

• English: knap

• “knap(pe, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 23 April 2018.

knappe

2. (rare) alternative form of knape

knappe

1. definite natural masculine singular of knapp