flapping
Meaning of flapping
verb, gerund or present participle
- (of a bird) move (its wings) up and down when flying or preparing to fly.
a pheasant flapped its wings
gulls flapped around uttering their strange cries
- be agitated or panicky.
it's all right, Mother, don't flap
Middle English: probably imitative.
Information about flapping
- It is a verb.
- The plural form of flapping is: flappings.
- Languages in which flapping is used:
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Hyphenation of flapping
flap-ping
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- flapping is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
flapping synonyms
Meaning flap:
Meaning (of a bird) move (the wings) up and down:
Meaning make (someone) troubled or nervous:
Meaning move to and fro with a swaying motion while remaining fixed to one point:
Meaning (especially with reference to an animal's tail) move or cause to move rapidly to and fro:
Meaning move or cause to move with short quick movements from side to side or up and down:
Meaning (of a structure or area of land) tremble or vibrate:
Meaning move or cause to move back and forth or from side to side while suspended or on an axis:
Meaning give or cause to give a short, sudden jerking or convulsive movement:
Meaning separate grain from (corn or other crops), typically with a flail or by the action of a revolving mechanism:
Meaning beat (a person or animal) repeatedly and violently with a stick or whip:
Meaning wave or swing wildly:
Meaning move continuously and rapidly to and fro:
Meaning tremble or shake with a slight rapid motion:
Meaning (of a person, a part of the body, or the voice) shake involuntarily, typically as a result of anxiety, excitement, or frailty:
Meaning move or swing back and forth in a regular rhythm:
Meaning feel or cause to feel panic:
Meaning show unnecessary or excessive concern about something:
Words that rhyme with flapping
Ping, ping, Sellotaping, aping, awhaping, bedraping, beleaping, caping, cheaping, craping, dognaping, draping, escaping, gaping, graping, heaping, japing, kidnaping, landscaping, leaping, misshaping, neaping, nonscraping, outleaping, outshaping, overheaping, overleaping, petnaping, preescaping, preshaping, pretaping, raping, reaping, relandscaping, reshaping, retaping, scaping, scraping, sellotaping, shaping, skyscraping, sneaping, soaping, subgaping, taping, threaping, townscaping, transshaping, traping, uncaping
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