Yapp
Yapp! is a web-based platform where you can find events and places around you [1]; Yapp is also an English surname. The surname is derived from an Old English word meaning "crooked, bent; deceitful; shrewd, smart".[2] There is also a type of binding known as "yapp"; this is a limp leather binding with the covers overlapping the edges of the book; it is named after a bookseller called Yapp.[3]
Notable people with the surname include:
- John Yapp (born 1983), Welsh international rugby union player
- Stan Yapp (1933-2012), first leader of West Midlands County Council
- William Brunsdon Yapp (1909-1990), zoologist
- Yapp Hung Fai
See also
- Ye (surname), spelled Yap or Yapp in Hakka and Minnan
- Yap, an island in the Pacific Ocean in the Federated States of Micronesia
- Yappie
- Yapp (mobile application)
Footnotes
- ^ yapp.experience.com.
- ^ Cottle, Basil (1967) The Penguin Dictionary of Surnames. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books; p. 330.
- ^ Macdonald, A. M. (ed.) (1972) Chambers Twentieth Century Dictionary. London: Chambers ISBN 055010206X; p. 1582.
External links
- Yapp! Experience, platform with all events and places around you
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