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I see this word alot here on this board. I know people from all over the world post here, but I'm from California and I guess I don't get out much because I don't know what "nappy" means. Anyone care to enlighten me ?
Nappy means nasty.
This is the definition I'm more familiar with- nasty, grungy, unkempt and dirty. (BTW, I'm from the SF Bay Area.)
Lee
I am from Europe and I was told it means curly in a kind of messy way.
nap (nap) n.
1. A soft or fuzzy surface on fabric or leather.
—nap tr.v. napped, nap-ping, naps.
To form or raise a soft or fuzzy surface on (fabric or leather).
In Australia and Britain it also means "diaper", though I assume it is not used in that context here!
In Australia and Britain it also means "diaper", though I assume it is not used in that context here!
The way a black persons hair grows, not freely out of the follicle in the way a causcasion or Asian persons grows. Not all black ppl have nappy hair. If you have any black friends or family, go ask them, because I'm as white as the webpage you're looking at :-), and I ,may be wrong.
Nova(John)
"Nappy" is Black English for "kinky". Many whites have not heard the term. I first learned of it about two years ago, and the term has indeed worked its way into more general use as we move toward a multicultural society. The guy who named "Napster" after his own nickname was a white guy who got the nickname for having kinky hair.
The term is not new. My 1961 dictionary (Webster's Third New International) defines "nappy" thusly: KINKY, used esp. of Negroes' hair.