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Initialism of New Economic Policy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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name
Initialism of National Energy Program.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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name
Initialism of National Election Pool.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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noun
Initialism of noise-equivalent power.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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noun
Initialism of nanosatellite engineering professional.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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noun
Initialism of non-English proficient.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Topics: government
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noun
Catmint, catnip; Nepeta cataria.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
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noun
A knot in a fibre.
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noun
One who engages in nepotism, usually to the one who benefits from it.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, derogatory, slang
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noun
Nepali
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: derogatory, ethnic, informal, offensive, slur
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verb
Of cotton: to form knots.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, dialectal, intransitive
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History
From Middle English neppe, nepe, nepte, nept, from Old English nepte, nefte, from Latin nepeta. Compare Dutch neppe, nippe (“catnip”). Doublet of nepeta.
Perhaps a variant of nap for knap, from Middle English knep, kneppe, knappe, a conflation of Old English cnep, cnæp, cnæpp (“top, knop, summit”) and Old Norse knappr (“knob”), both from Proto-Germanic *knappaz, *knappô (“knob”), from Proto-Indo-European *gnebh- (“to press, tighten”), from Proto-Indo-European *gen- (“to pinch, squeeze, bend, press together, ball”). Compare also Old Norse hnappr (“button”). Related to knob.
Clipping of nepotist.
