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carper

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Scrabble points
10
Words With Friends
12
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ˈkɑː(ɹ)pə(ɹ)/(UK)
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/ˈkɑː(ɹ)pə(ɹ)/(UK) · /ˈkɑː(ɹ)pə(ɹ)/

Definition of carper

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  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.”
    “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.”
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noun

  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.”
    “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.”

name

  1. A surname.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From carp + -er.

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5-letter words

7 words

4-letter words

17 words

3-letter words

18 words

2-letter words

6 words

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