Meaning of aflap | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Flapping.
   not-comparable
2. Filled (with something flapping).
   not-comparable
3. Showing excessive excitement or anger.
   colloquial, not-comparable

Examples

“1894, George Lansing Raymond, The Aztec God, Act 3, in The Aztec God and Other Dramas, New York: Putnam, 1908, p. 66, and she / A vulture feasting with foul wings aflap”

“nodding her head firmly, headscarf aflap”

“[…] a woman in a gaberdine comes staggering out from the roadside, hands aflap, shoeless but on the run.”

“They walked up Main Street, which was all aflap with American flags […]”

“Clothes-drying lofts, open frameworks on the flat roofs of houses, all aflap with clothes, sheets, kimono, reminded me of Canaletto’s pictures of Venetian life […]”

“[…] the buses bursting with cackling passengers three times over capacity and aflap with chickens.”

“1977, Niel Hancock, Calix Stay, New York: Fawcett Popular Library, p. 93, “First he says we isn’t welcome, then he’s all aflap cause some of us is gone.””

“1994, Bernice Morgan, Waiting for Time, St. John’s, NL: Breakwater, Part 1, Chapter 4, p. 53, […] people are barely over our givin’ that extra quota of cod to the French, now they’re all aflap about selling spawny caplin to the Japanese […]”

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