lappy
n.— «After all the kvetching (I don’t know how to spell in Yiddish), this schmuck managed to turn a used lappy into a killer computing machine.» —“Buying Used Computers—Addendum” NonProphet Apr. 14, 2002. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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