Geap

Old English Dictionary Entry

Geap

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: gæp; Related words:

Definitions

1 geap

comp, m. geappra, f. n. geappre; adj. I. crooked, bent, curved; curvus, pandus :-- Geap curvus, Cot. 50. Geap stæf a crooked letter, Salm. Kmbl. 250; Sal. 124 : 269; Sal. 134. Geapum, gebígedum pando, Mone B. 90. II. not straightforward, deceitful, crafty, cunning, shrewd, astute; fallax, callĭdus, astūtus :-- Geap callĭdus, Wrt. Voc. 49, 11. Seó næddre wæs geappre ðonne ealle ða óðre nýtenu serpens ĕrat callĭdior cunctis animantĭbus terræ, Gen. 3, 1. Cild geap an astute child, Obs. Lun. § 2; Lchdm. iii. 184, 14 : § 9; Lchdm. iii. 188, 11. DER. hinder-geap. Grein writes geáp, in support of which may be noticed ȝæp in the Ormulum. Layamon also has the word, and it occurs in Piers P. geapes,geap

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