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knap

Pronunciation: /knap/

“knap” is a Danish word. Its 7 meanings in English:

adjective

  1. scant, scarce
  2. brief, concise

adverb

  1. hardly, scarcely
  2. just under
  3. barely

noun

  1. button (in clothes etc.)
  2. button (in machines)

Etymology

Probably from Middle Low German knap, otherwise related to it. Further cognate with German knapp, Swedish knapp, Dutch knap.

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