plap, v.
(plæp)
[Onomatopœic: cf. for beginning plash, for end flap, slap. See also plop.]
intr. To come down or fall with a flat impact, and with the sound that this makes. Also as n. or adv., in phr. to play plap.
| 1846 Thackeray Cornhill to Cairo x, Constantinople beauties..waddling and plapping in their odious yellow papooshes. 1855 ― Newcomes lxvi, Hark, there is Barnes Newcome's eloquence still plapping on like water from a cistern. 1860 ― Round. Papers, Christmas Tree 109 The white bears winked their pink eyes, as they plapped up and down by their pool. 1894 Crockett Raiders 231 The rain drops played ‘plap’ on my naked skin. |