napper

See also: Napper

English

Etymology

nap +‎ -er

Pronunciation

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Noun

napper (plural nappers)

1. A person who takes a nap.
2. (slang) The head.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:head

   • 1911, Charles Collins, Fred E. Terry, E.A. Sheppard (lyrics and music), “Any Old Iron”:

     You look so dapper from your napper to your feet.

   • 1917, Arthur Guy Empey, “Lewis Gun”, in Over the Top, G. P. Putnam's, page 297:

     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.

   • 2011, Jeremy Roberts, Let's Not And Say We Did, page 96:

     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. (obsolete) A machine used to raise the nap on cloth.
4. (obsolete) A sheepstealer.

   Hypernyms: see Thesaurus:rustler

Derived terms

• catnapper
• dognapper
• gene-napper
• rain napper

 

Further reading

• Jonathon Green (2024) “napper n.¹”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang
• Jonathon Green (2024) “napper n.²”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Anagrams

• papern, rappen

French

Etymology

From nappe +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /na.pe/

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Verb

napper

1. (cooking) to cover (to cover something with sauce)

Conjugation

Conjugation of napper (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	napper
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	nappant /na.pɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		nappé /na.pe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	nappe /nap/	nappes /nap/	nappe /nap/	nappons /na.pɔ̃/	nappez /na.pe/	nappent /nap/
	imperfect	nappais /na.pɛ/	nappais /na.pɛ/	nappait /na.pɛ/	nappions /na.pjɔ̃/	nappiez /na.pje/	nappaient /na.pɛ/
	past historic2	nappai /na.pe/	nappas /na.pa/	nappa /na.pa/	nappâmes /na.pam/	nappâtes /na.pat/	nappèrent /na.pɛʁ/
	future	napperai /na.pʁe/	napperas /na.pʁa/	nappera /na.pʁa/	napperons /na.pʁɔ̃/	napperez /na.pʁe/	napperont /na.pʁɔ̃/
	conditional	napperais /na.pʁɛ/	napperais /na.pʁɛ/	napperait /na.pʁɛ/	napperions /na.pə.ʁjɔ̃/	napperiez /na.pə.ʁje/	napperaient /na.pʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	nappe /nap/	nappes /nap/	nappe /nap/	nappions /na.pjɔ̃/	nappiez /na.pje/	nappent /nap/
	imperfect2	nappasse /na.pas/	nappasses /na.pas/	nappât /na.pa/	nappassions /na.pa.sjɔ̃/	nappassiez /na.pa.sje/	nappassent /na.pas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	nappe /nap/	—	nappons /na.pɔ̃/	nappez /na.pe/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “napper”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Verb

napper

1. present of nappe