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Yapp

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Yapp is an English surname, derived from an Old English word meaning "crooked, bent; deceitful; shrewd, smart".[1] Notable people with the surname include:

  • John Yapp (born 1983), Welsh international rugby union player
  • Richard Henry Yapp (1871-1929), Botanist
  • Stan Yapp (1933-2012), first leader of West Midlands County Council
  • William Brunsdon Yapp (1909-1990), zoologist
  • Yapp Hung Fai, footballer

There is also a type of binding known as "yapp"; this is a limp leather binding with the covers overlapping the edges of the book; it is named after a bookseller called Yapp.[2]

See also

  • Ye (surname), spelled Yap or Yapp in Hakka and Minnan
  • Yap, an island in the Pacific Ocean in the Federated States of Micronesia
  • Yappie
  • Yapp (mobile application)

Footnotes

  1. ^ Cottle, Basil (1967) The Penguin Dictionary of Surnames. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books; p. 330.
  2. ^ Macdonald, A. M. (ed.) (1972) Chambers Twentieth Century Dictionary. London: Chambers ISBN 055010206X; p. 1582.

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