carper

/ˈkɑː(ɹ)pə(ɹ)/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.12 in modern English

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Meaning

noun

name

"Shame not these woods, / By putting on the cunning of a carper."
"Come, let my carper to his life now look, And find there darker lines than in my book He findeth any […]"
"He censures everything, this zealous carper."
"What is this sort of piece going to do when confronted with row upon row of coldly sober carpers?"
"[…] Lady Tipper […] shook her head in wounded defiance of all the carpers and whiners."

From carp + -er.

carpers (plural)

niggler

harper sharper scarper larper

Questions

How do you pronounce carper?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˈkɑː(ɹ)pə(ɹ)/.

What does carper mean?

Where does carper come from?

From carp + -er.

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