nep

See also: Nep, NEP, nép, nếp, and Nep.

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nɛp/
  • Rhymes: -ɛp

Etymology 1

Clipping of nepte.

Noun

nep (usually uncountable, plural neps)

  1. Catmint, catnip; Nepeta cataria.
    • 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio 2007, p. 201:
      Nep is generally used for women to procure their courses, being taken inwardly or outwardly, either alone or with other convenient herbs in a decoction to bathe them, of sit over the hot fumes thereof.

Etymology 2

Noun

nep (plural neps)

  1. (Britain, dialect) A knot in a fibre of cotton.

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Dutch

Etymology

From German Nepp.

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ɛp

Noun

nep m (uncountable)

  1. imitation, fake

Adjective

nep (comparative nepper, superlative nepst)

  1. fake, not real
  2. artificial, not natural

Inflection

This word is used more often in compounds than as an attributive adjective. Thus, the inflected form neppe is rarely used, and prefixing with nep- is more common. The predicative and partitive forms are used normally.

Inflection of nep
uninflected nep
inflected neppe
comparative nepper
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial nep nepper het nepst
het nepste
indefinite m./f. sing. neppe neppere nepste
n. sing. nep nepper nepste
plural neppe neppere nepste
definite neppe neppere nepste
partitive neps neppers —

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