flap
/flæp/ verbo B2En español: batir, flamear, tremolar
- To move (something broad and loose) up and down. · The crow slowly flapped its wings.· Startled, the wood pigeon flew off, its wings flapping noisily.
- To move loosely back and forth. · The flag flapped in the breeze.
- For a goalkeeper to weakly attempt to play a flighted ball with the hands, failing to control it.
- To pronounce (something) as a flap consonant.
- To be pronounced with a flap consonant.
- To be advertised as being available and then unavailable (or available by different routes) in rapid succession.
- To talk, especially in a manner seen as excessive, nagging or annoying. · She stay flappin' at me.
He/she/it flaps · Pasado flapped · Participio pasado flapped · Forma en -ing flapping
Formas del verbo
- Forma base
- flap
- He/she/it
- flaps
- Pasado
- flapped
- Participio pasado
- flapped
- Forma en -ing
- flapping
Phrasal verbs y expresiones
De la biblioteca
The vanquished Cock skulked away and hid himself in a quiet corner, while the conqueror, flying up to a high wall, flapped his wings and crowed exultingly with all his might.
This ended the saying of the charm, and they heard a great chattering and flapping of wings, as the band of Winged Monkeys flew up to them.
Then he took the envelope itself, held it up to the light, and very carefully studied both the exterior and the flap.
She flew off her nest as Nagaina came along, and flapped her wings about Nagaina’s head.
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