Napping is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for NAPPING in dictionary:

VERB:
• NAP, to sleep briefly
• sleep lightly or briefly, especially during the day
• name (a horse or greyhound) as a probable winner of a race
• (of a horse) refuse, especially habitually, to go on at the rider's instruction; jib
NOUN:
• a short sleep, especially during the day
• a card game resembling whist in which players declare the number of tricks they expect to take, up to five.
• the raised hairs or threads on the surface of fabric or suede leather, in terms of the direction in which they naturally lie
• a bedroll used for sleeping on in the open.
• The act or process of raising a nap, as on cloth.
• A sheet of partially felted fur before it is united to the hat body.
• a tipster's prediction of the probable winner of a race
ADJECTIVE:
• not prepared or vigilant
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• present participle of nap

Words related to NAPPING

nap5 napped11 naps6

Words that contain NAPPING

knapping17 snapping13 snappings14 catnapping17 dognapping17 kidnapping20 petnapping17 snappingly18 unsnapping15 bossnapping18 dognappings18 kidnappings21 petnappings18 bossnappings19

How to use NAPPING in a sentence

• A little after dark I was lying on a coil of ropes, napping it.
• Instinct told him that when all other creatures were well fed and napping he could move more openly and with less fear of detection.
• I made for the barns to catch Bruin napping or lolling in the old hay.
• Kimmel appeared to act confused, as if he had been caught napping.
• He said that one of the boys in the shop tried to play a trick on the old man, as they call him, while he was napping on the couch.
• Jonathan and a weasel are two animals that are very rarely caught napping.
• Three men still took their turn, however, to hold the barricade, for they were not to be caught napping again.
• They will catch good seamen napping, or confuse their judgment by arts well known to those who go to sea, or overcome them by the sheer brutality of elemental forces.
• That this was the case can be proved beyond a doubt, but I do not give it as an excuse for our being caught napping by the enemy, which we certainly were.
• Fortunately my grandmother began napping again, and I resumed my task.
• Hawkwood was caught napping, and Pisa in her turn was humbled.
• Dave was becoming more alert, and was not caught napping in this movement.
• Monk the rest the voyage the latter was never to be caught napping, and kept himself out of danger.
• You must catch him napping, indeed, before he will allow you an opportunity of colouring him on the spot from nature.
• It was not reasonable to suppose that in the next week or two he would not catch them napping once for a short ten seconds.
• No use trying to raid the fort again! Spain would not be caught napping a second time.
• Behind the sandhills from Ostend around to Etaples lay a French army of 130,000 men, ready to invade us if for a few hours it could catch our fleets napping.
• Barrymore seized the starting handle, and gave it the one vigorous twist which wakes the engine when it is napping.
• The devil would be sure to take me napping, and very much at unawares, if he should find me without dice.
• We also saw something strange while you were napping.
• Was Aunt Purdie not so well? It was news to hear of her napping in the middle of the day.
• Sound it did, in short time, but it caught no one napping.
• Caught us napping, damn them, after all! They were stronger than we thought, Flint, and cleverer, and better organized.
• For a moment Hal waited, for he did not wish to be caught napping.
• I never have had typhoid fever, but she is always on the watch for it, and if it ever comes it will not catch her napping.
• Poor old man! I saw him nodding and napping, nearly dead for sleep, the last time he was out with her.
• To be caught napping, or to be heard running through the woods, is more than he can possibly stand.
• He swung a hard right which caught Jerry napping and sent him against the ropes, but before he could follow up the advantage the boy had slipped out of danger.
• Shrewd French mother-wit is not easily caught napping.
• The deputies had ridden away to the other end of the valley that morning, but Menendez did not intend to be caught napping in case of their unexpected return.
• So I propped Lydia in the armchair, where she seemed as if napping, and went quietly upstairs.

Similar words containing NAPP without suffix ing

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