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sap-head
ˈsap-head [f. sap n.1 (sense 4). Cf. the earlier sapskull.] A fool, a simpleton.1798 T. G. Fessenden in Farmer's Weekly Museum 2 Jan. 4/1 The poet nimbly trips it back—Over the Union courses rapid, And squibs each Jacobinick saphead. 1828 Craven Gloss., Sap-head, a blockhead. 1884 ‘Mark Twain’ Huck....
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sapskull
sapskull Now dial. (see E.D.D.). (ˈsæpskʌl) [f. sap n.1 (sense 4) + skull.] = sap-head.1735 H. Carey Honest Yorkshire-man 9 Welcome to London, dear 'Squire Sapscull. 1785 Grose Dict. Vulgar Tongue, Sapscull, a simple fellow. 1796 Sporting Mag. VII. 55 Poor sapskull, thus craftily put to the blush. 1...
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Robert Alfred John Walling
Central Queensland Herald, 5 December 1935
Public Sap-Head Number One Townsville Daily Bulletin, 2 October 1937
The Resurrection of Mr Benison (1939)
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Gillette Castle State Park
Gillette died, leaving no wife or children, and his will precluded the possession of his home by any "blithering sap-head who has no conception of where
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sappy
sappy, a. (n.) (ˈsæpɪ) [f. sap n.1 + -y. Cf. MLG. sapich, MHG. saffec, saffic.] 1. Of a plant or tree or its parts, of wood: Abounding in sap.1100 Aldhelm Gloss. i. 546 in Napier O.E. Glosses 16/1 Suculentus, sæpiᵹ stela. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 441/1 Sapy, or fulle of sap, cariosus. a 1555 Samuel Let. ...
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sap
▪ I. sap, n.1 (sæp) Forms: 1 sæp, sep, 4 Kentish zep, 5 saap(pe, 5–7 sappe, 6 sape, sapp, 4– sap. [Com. WGer.: OE. sæp, genit. sæpes (prob. neut.) = MLG., LG., MDu., Du. sap, neut. (Flemish zap), OHG. saf, genit. saffes, neut. (MHG. saf, saft, neut., mod.G. saft, masc., whence Sw. saft, fem., Da. sa...
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sector
▪ I. sector, n. (ˈsɛktə(r)) [a. late L. sector (Boethius), a special use of L. sector (agent-n. f. secāre to cut), to translate Gr. τοµεύς, lit. ‘cutter’, but used by Archimedes and later geometers in the senses 1 a and 1 b. Cf. F. secteur, Sp. sector, It. settore.] I. 1. Geom. a. A plane figure con...
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