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/nˈæpɪŋ/ Listen

noun

Napping n.

The act or process of raising a nap, as on cloth.

(Hat Making) A sheet of partially felted fur before it is united to the hat body.

The act or process of having a short sleep; as, napping is a common occupation for cats.

verb

Nap v. t. To raise, or put, a nap on.

Nap v. i. (past & past part. napped; pres. part. napping)

To have a short sleep; to be drowsy; to doze.

To be in a careless, secure state; to be unprepared; as, to be caught napping. "I took thee napping, unprepared."

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Etymology of 'Napping'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Napping" Quotes from Famous Books

... boat steadily on her calamitous course, and leave the consequences to take care of themselves—which I did. So we went plowing past the sterns of steamboats and getting closer and closer—the crash was bound to come very soon—and still that hat never budged; for alas, the captain was napping in the texas.... Things were becoming exceedingly nervous and uncomfortable. It seemed to me that the captain was not going to appear in time to see the entertainment. But he did. Just as we were walking into the stern of a steamboat, he stepped out on deck, and ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... 'LORING'S' be open at this early dawn? 'Open,' indeed! one does not catch him napping; yes, open and so inviting! A literary public garden so ...

— The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 - Devoted To Literature And National Policy • Various

... seemed to be threatening evil, and she sat listless and abstracted, when her mother came home, looking from the window. She did not even see her mother, until she put a hand upon each of her shoulders and asked her "if she was napping?" ...

— The Elm Tree Tales • F. Irene Burge Smith

... close, warm day for an English September, and there was the hush and heaviness of impending rain. Now and then there came sudden puffs of wind from the south-west—one of them so gusty and unexpected that it caught me napping and turned me half-round for an instant. I remember the time when gusts and whirls and air-pockets used to be things of danger—before we learned to put an overmastering power into our engines. Just as I reached the cloud-banks, with the altimeter marking three thousand, down ...

— Tales of Terror and Mystery • Arthur Conan Doyle

... don't he meet me fore this time? It's pesky strange he should hang back in a woman affair so! Why, he would go—like enough has gone—but then how could he miss me? O Lord, Bart, what a stupid pup! He passed you when you was napping it in the bushes at that cool spring! I'll bet my old hat on't! Well, we shan't see much more of him to-night, likely, seeing it is love he's doing, and such a moon as this holds the candle; and we may as well be trying to find out this business without ...

— The Rangers - [Subtitle: The Tory's Daughter] • D. P. Thompson

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