verbum sap

phrase

Clipped compound of verbum sapienti.

Meanings

phrase
  1. Clipped compound of verbum sapienti.

    Is this mere bluff for time? Or what—a manuscript, a signature, another portrait, a counter-cryptogram? However, young Lochinvar has gone out of the West—verbum sap.

    1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries
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APA

verbum sap. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/verbum%20sap

MLA

“verbum sap.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/verbum%20sap. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “verbum sap,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/verbum%20sap.

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