carper
see also: Carper
Pronunciation
Carper
Proper noun
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see also: Carper
Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /kɑː(ɹ)pə(ɹ)/
carper (plural carpers)
- A person who habitually carp#Verb|carps, who talks too much and regularly finds fault.
- c. 1607, William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, Act IV, Scene 3,
- Shame not these woods, / By putting on the cunning of a carper.
- 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress, The Author’s Apology for his Book,
- Come, let my carper to his life now look,
- And find there darker lines than in my book
- He findeth any […]
- 1908, Molière, Tartuffe (1664), translated by Curtis Hidden Page, Act I, Scene I,
- He censures everything, this zealous carper.
- 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, Bloomsbury, 2005, Chapter 11 (iii),
- […] Lady Tipper […] shook her head in wounded defiance of all the carpers and whiners.
- c. 1607, William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, Act IV, Scene 3,
- See also Thesaurus:complainer
Carper
Proper noun
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