carper
See also: Carper
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɑː(r)pə(r)
Noun
carper (plural carpers)
- A person who habitually carps, who talks too much and regularly finds fault.
- c. 1607, William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, Act IV, Scene 3,[1]
- 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,[2]
- 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,[3]
- 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,[1]
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:complainer