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Webster 1913 Edition


Nep

Nep

,
Noun.
[Abbrev. fr.
Nepeta
.]
(Bot.)
Catnip.

Webster 1828 Edition


Nep

NEP

,
Noun.
A plant of the genus Nepeta; catmint.

Definition 2024


Nep

Nep

See also: nep, NEP, nép, nếp, and Nep.

English

Noun

Nep (plural Neps)

  1. (informal, ethnic slur, derogatory, offensive) Nepali
    • 2013, Aatish Taseer, The Temple Goers
      Nepali job. Hundred and one per cent a Nep job. You've seen some of the crime they're responsible for. I tell you, these guys are **** crazy. [] Ninety-nine per cent of this kind of crime, at least in Delhi, is done by Neps.

nep

nep

See also: Nep, NEP, nép, nếp, and Nep.

English

Noun

nep (plural neps)

  1. Catmint, catnip; Nepeta cataria.
    • 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio 2007, p. 201:
      Nep is generally used for women to procure their courses, being taken inwardly or outwardly, either alone or with other convenient herbs in a decoction to bathe them, of sit over the hot fumes thereof.

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Dutch

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɛp

Etymology

From German Nepp.

Noun

nep m (uncountable)

  1. imitation, fake

Adjective

nep (comparative nepper, superlative nepst)

  1. fake, not real
  2. artificial, not natural

Inflection

This word is used more often in compounds than as an attributive adjective. Thus, the inflected form neppe is rarely used, and prefixing with nep- is more common. The predicative and partitive forms are used normally.

Inflection of nep
uninflected nep
inflected neppe
comparative nepper
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial nep nepper het nepst
het nepste
indefinite m./f. sing. neppe neppere nepste
n. sing. nep nepper nepste
plural neppe neppere nepste
definite neppe neppere nepste
partitive neps neppers

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