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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
gappy

"full of gaps," 1846, from gap (n.) + -y (2).

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gappy

a. Having many gaps.

Usage examples of "gappy".

A voice in the crowd volunteered that the man could well be Joss Gappy, an apprentice shoemaker from New Cobblers.

She smiled, showing even white teeth instead of gappy nobs on decaying gums.

Janet was wearing black wraparound sunglasses of the style favored by rock stars and seventysomething Hollywood agents, and young, Gappy clothing.

The boy looked up with a gappy grin and man and boy examined the bounty.

Clothed in black suits, white shirts, and black neckties, holding their black derbies by their brims and turning their gappy smiles back and forth between Mrs.

He plucked a bit of gristle from his gappy teeth and tossed it to the crow, which snapped it from the air with its bonewhite beak and swallowed it whole.

She glanced at her own children, little Michael Joseph with a face covered in tomato sauce and a mouthful of hamburger, and her daughter, her Chivonne, with her blonde pigtails and gappy front teeth.

Soon he closed his fingers, got up erect with the assistance of the door-handle and advanced to where MacCruiskeen was, smiling his gappy smile.

The sewn-up Gappy had been escorted to New Cobblers, where Fred Colon had patiently explained events to the man's parents with his round red face radiating honesty.

In the middle of it all, on a walnut coffee table, there was a double picture frame: Jays as a kid, gappy grin and slicked-back hair.