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What does tappy lappy or happy tappy or happy lappy mean (not sure of the exact phrase) is its spoken about a person?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.A Geordie folk-club performer years ago used to tell a shaggy-dog story about an ancient historical character - I can't remember who now, and it's not really important - which involved this character "and all his cuddies (donkeys or ponies), and all his cuddy-chariots, and all his cuddy-chariot drivers, gannin' tappy-lappy doon the moontainside", so I guess it means "as fast as they could manage".