jaap
/ (jɑːp) /
Southern African offensive a simpleton or country bumpkin
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How to use jaap in a sentence
Dutch war correspondent Hans-jaap Melissen knows Syria and its conflict well.
Seduced by War, Europeans Join the Fight in Syria | Nadette De Visser | June 11, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST“And start quarrelling again, with renewed courage, on the first of January,” grinned jaap.
The Later Life | Louis Couperusjaap's own salutations were very elaborate, and altogether of a character to prevent the suspicion of our ever having met before.
The Chainbearer | J. Fenimore CooperThus saying, jaap rode on, my sister and myself doing the same, pursuing the discourse that had thus accidentally arisen among us.
The Chainbearer | J. Fenimore Cooperjaap had made this movement in good season, and we were compelled to row a quarter of a mile down the river to meet the sloop.
The Chainbearer | J. Fenimore Cooper
I had learned enough of Andries and his party to satisfy my curiosity, and jaap was patiently waiting to succeed me at the table.
The Chainbearer | J. Fenimore Cooper
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