| 词汇 | lagniappe |
| 词源 | lagniappe. Lagniappe, a “bonus gift” often given by merchants to customers, derives from the American Indian yapa, “a present to a customer,” which came into Spanish first as la napa, “the gift.” Pronounced lanyap, the word has also been used in Louisi- ana to mean small-scale bribery. |
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