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noun
An extra or unexpected gift or benefit, such as that given to customers when they purchase something.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Louisiana, Trinidad-and-Tobago
Qualifier: Mississippi
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: bonus, brotus, pasella, tilly
Antonyms: none provided
noun
a small gift (especially one given by a merchant to a customer who makes a purchase)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: gift
History
Borrowed from Louisiana French lagniappe, from Spanish la ñapa, a variant of yapa (“small gift or additional quantity given to a valued customer”), from Quechua yapa (“addition, increase, supplement; lagniappe”), yapay (“to add, to increase”).
Across languages
15 source translations are retained for this English entry.
