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carper

noun
/ˈkɑː(ɹ)pə(ɹ)/UK

Etymology

From carp + -er.

  1. derived from *karpo✻
  2. derived from carpa
  3. derived from carpe
  4. inherited from carpe — “the common carp (Cyprinus carpio)”
  5. suffixed as carper — “carp + er”

Definitions

  1. A person who habitually carps, who talks too much and regularly finds fault.

    • 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.

  2. A surname.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA