Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Scot. Wrapped; covered; cloaked.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
hap . - adjective
Wrapped ;covered ;cloaked .
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Examples
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When she came at night, and "happed" the bed-clothes carefully about his form, and then stooped to kiss his nut-brown cheeks, he turned away with a frown, muttering, "Mither, let me be."
The Junior Classics — Volume 6 Old-Fashioned Tales William Patten 1902
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When she came at night, and "happed" the bed-clothes carefully about his form, and then stooped to kiss his nut-brown cheeks, he turned away with a frown, muttering, "Mither, let me be."
Fairy Book Sophie May 1869
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"I do wish dear little Willy would stay in his bed, nicely 'happed' in '"
Little Grandfather Sophie May 1869
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"happed" about him once more by the gentle hands he had despised.
The Junior Classics — Volume 6 Old-Fashioned Tales William Patten 1902
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"happed" about him once more by the gentle hands he had despised.
Fairy Book Sophie May 1869
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And what has happed to the waters—blackened with oil, just as the air is blackened with smoke.
Surrender the Dark L. A. Banks 2011
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A white male republican was using tax payer money to have an affair in another country and it being reported would be called partisan politics dang it that happed to for example IF
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And what has happed to the waters—blackened with oil, just as the air is blackened with smoke.
Surrender the Dark L. A. Banks 2011
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What happed next was Ramirez 'drive banging off the center field wall.
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The students—all of us—wept like children; the surgeon happed her up.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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