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Kappa

nouninterjectionattested in dialogue

  • //ˈkæ.pə//

An emote, often used as a postscript, to indicate that the preceding statement is sarcastic or false.

noun

  1. 1

    An emote, often used as a postscript, to indicate that the preceding statement is sarcastic or false.

Etymology

From English kappa, borrowed from Japanese 河童 (kappa, “water imp”). Included as an Easter Egg by an early Twitch employee.

interjection

  1. 1

    Used to indicate sarcasm in imitation of Kappa as used on Twitch.tv

Forms

plural
Kappas
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).