ept

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English

Etymology 1

Back-formation from inept; compare apt.

Adjective

ept (comparative more ept, superlative most ept)

  1. (nonstandard or humorous) Skillful and knowledgeable; adept.
    • 1984, Military Intelligence - Volumes 10-12, page 62:
      These behaviors, developed in extremely bad basic and advanced training conditions were continued in better situations under more ept leadership.
    • 1991, United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Ethics, Preliminary Inquiry Into Allegations Regarding Senators Cranston, DeConcini, Glenn, McCain, and Riegle, and Lincoln Savings and Loan:
      ...known the ways of the world in Washington, and may not have been as one of my colleagues in the legislature said, "very ept", when it came to this stuff.
    • 1991, Anne Geller, M. J. Territo, Restore your life: a living plan for sober people, page 133:
      They're confident, calm, at ease, talkative, cheerful, and above all, socially very "ept."
    • 2003, Dana Stabenow, A Grave Denied, →ISBN, page 119:
      And someone who wasn't glacier ept might have thought the mouth of a glacier a great place to hide a body for a long, long time.

Etymology 2

Formed by analogy with slept.

Verb

ept

  1. (Internet slang, humorous) simple past of eep

Anagrams

Old Norse

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Norse ᛡᚠᚨᛏᛉ (ᴀfatʀ /⁠afᵃtr⁠/), from earlier Proto-Norse ᚨᚠᛏᛖᚱ (after), from Proto-Germanic *aftiri (“more aft, further behind”), *after, from Proto-Indo-European *apotero (“further behind, further away”), comparative form of *apo- (“off, behind”). Compare also aptr.

Adverb

ept

  1. after
    • 800s, Rök runestone
      Æft Vāmōð standa rūnaʀ þāʀ, æn Varinn fāði, faðiʀ æft fæigjan sonu […]
      After Vámóðr these runes stand, but Varinn painted them, the father after the death-doomed son.
    • 900s, Ynglingatal, verse 2
      […] þás í stein / hinn stórgeði / Dusla konr / ept dvergi hljóp. […]
      when the great-minded offspring of Dusli ran into the rock after the dwarf.
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