OK, now let's cut out the crap--
I've been keeping this new word on tap.
So if you want to play
Send a PM my way
With your best daffynition of "yapp."

Thanks for doing this, Proof. Mine's a'comin'!

Got two. Any more?

It seems you're not having any better luck with this game than I did. I wonder if there's an on-line user's group somewhere that does nothing but play this game? It's sure not working here.

I wonder what the new members are doing.

Forums go hot and cold. The problem is that cold begets cold. That's one thing I've learned since starting this place, and I've surely seen it on other forums and even on Blogs. Even the most venerable Blogs go through periods of absolute boredom, at least in my opinion. No worries. Let's just live with it. We can each send a couple.

What I can't understand is that CW is home these days and WM has just retired. Where are they? And Shu? Grrr!

I'll send another, Proof. In the meantime, Asa, I'd love a limerick on Dallas. It can't possibly be that hard, could it? Dallas...Pha.... etc.!

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I'd love a limerick on Dallas. It can't possibly be that hard, could it? Dallas...Pha.... etc.!

Oh, don't be silly! Phalarope doesn't even remotely rhyme with Dallas.

Here are the daffynitions for Yapp. Only one is the true defintion, so list your choice by number. Second prize for this contest is a complete three-volume set of "The Limericks of Jeb Raltar," which is scheduled for publication in early 2015. First prize is not getting a copy.

1. A micronesian language.

2. The part of the shoe between the shank and the outsole.

3. A bookbinding technique from the 1880s

4. An unintentional, seconds-long nap that you take most often in class or at a really boring meeting.

5. The mating call of a hooded seal

6. A long curved knife or sabre

7. A funeral chant of the Klingit Indians

My vote is for #6. But I'm surprised that there is no definition for the favored communication form of those tiny little dogs...

It's the mating call of a Tlingit bookbinder in Micronesia. How he got to Micronesia from British Columbia I'll never know!

Oh, fooey, I dunno; I'll guess #4

# 3, please.

If you visit the Island of Yap
Be aware there's a clear market gap.
They use coins made of stone,
Far too big to be thrown,
So take small coins and surely they'll clap!

3. for me, please.

Well, I'll vote for #1, please

WM

OK, here are the results for Yapp.

1. A Micronesian language.
Wordmatic is trying to learn this non-existent language invented by Asa.

2. The part of the shoe between the shank and the outsole.
Kalleh didn’t fool anyone with this extra entry.

3. A bookbinding technique from the 1880s.
Mr. Yapp of London perfected this process and it didn’t fool Kalleh or Arnie.

4. An unintentional, seconds-long nap that you take most often in class or at a really boring meeting.
Kalleh caught Asa napping with this one.

5. The mating call of a hooded seal
This is my fake....

6. A long curved knife or sabre.
Arnie punctured Trossl with this one.

7. A funeral chant of the Klingit Indians
....and this is another.

I wish I could take credit for knowing the word, but it was an "educated guess."

Nice word, particularly for this Board. Do they still use the Yapp technique? I presume not.

Here is an entry I found online describing the process:

A style of binding featuring a cover (leather, or other material, but customarily leather) that overlaps the three edges of both upper and lower covers continuously. The covers are always limp or semi-flexible, and are sometimes fitted with a zipper, which was a later refinement. Yapp books, named after the English bookseller of the second half of the 19th century, William Yapp, always have round corners, and the endpapers are frequently made from a "surface" paper, usually black. The edges are sometimes gilt, frequently over red, or are stained or otherwise colored. The Yapp style is especially associated with books of devotion (almost exclusively today), although a half century ago books of verse were sometimes bound in somewhat similar covers.

If you have an old family Bible, it may be Yapp-style.

arnie, did you know the word? Probably.