What's a "bap"?

[Jocelyn Limpert]

Also, a BAP, with an American origin and in more modern times, is a "Black
American Princess" -- the same way that a JAP is a "Jewish American
Princess."

On 3/22/09, Douglas G. Wilson <douglas at nb.net> wrote:
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> In the Scots National Dictionary:
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> http://www.dsl.ac.uk/getent4.php?plen=2390&startset=1656504&query=BAP&fhit=bap&dregion=form&dtext=snd#fhit
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> Sense 2: "a stupid person" ... from Ulster, I guess.
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> -- Doug Wilson
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