napped
adjective
[ ˈnapt ]
• (of a textile) having a nap, usually of a specified kind.
• "a long-napped paint roller"
napped
adjective
• (of food) served in a sauce or other liquid.
• "mushrooms napped with melted butter"
Origin:
1970s: from French napper ‘coat with (a sauce)’, from nappe ‘cloth’, figuratively ‘pool of liquid’, + -ed2.
nap
verb
• sleep lightly or briefly, especially during the day.
• "she took to napping on the beach in the afternoons"
Similar:
doze,
sleep (lightly),
take a nap,
catnap,
rest,
take a siesta,
drowse,
snooze,
snatch forty winks,
drop off,
nod off,
get some shut-eye,
kip,
have a kip,
zizz,
get some zizz,
catch some/a few Zs,
slumber,
Origin:
Old English hnappian, probably of Germanic origin.
nap
verb
• name (a horse or greyhound) as a probable winner of a race.
• "Harbinger is napped to win the Novices' Hurdle"
Origin:
early 19th century: abbreviation of napoleon, the original name of the card game.
nap
verb
• (of a horse) refuse, especially habitually, to go on at the rider's instruction; jib.
• "horses which nap should be dealt with by professionals"
Origin:
1950s: back-formation from nappy, an adjective first used to describe heady beer (late Middle English), later used in the sense ‘intoxicated by drink’ (early 18th century), and since the 1920s used to describe a disobedient horse.
