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napper

noun

Etymology

From nap + -er.

  1. inherited from *hnappaz✻ — “a cup, bowl”
  2. inherited from *hnapp✻
  3. inherited from hnæpp — “a cup, bowl”
  4. inherited from nap — “a bowl”
  5. suffixed as napper — “nap + er”

Definitions

  1. A person who takes a nap.

  2. The head.

    • You look so dapper from your napper to your feet.
    • Under fire when this magazine is emptied you shout for “ammo” but perhaps No. 2, the ammo carrier, is lying in the rear with a bullet through his napper.
    • As he walked back to his flat after meekly apologising, he wondered why a severe pain in his napper could affect the lead in his pencil.

  3. A machine used to raise the nap on cloth.

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. A sheepstealer.

    2. A surname originating as an occupation.

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