Backrapper vs Backarapper - What's the difference?
backrapper | backarapper | Alternative forms |
A firework made from multiple firecrackers folded together so that they will explode one after the other.
* 1954 , J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring ,
* 1956 , John Petty, Five fags a day: the last year of a scrap-picker , page 60:
* 1966 , Oswald Harcourt Davis, The master: a study of Arnold Bennett , page 162:
Backrapper is an alternative form of backarapper.
As a noun backarapper is
a firework made from multiple firecrackers folded together so that they will explode one after the other.backrapper
Not English
Backrapper has no English definition. It may be misspelled.backarapper
English
Alternative forms
* backrapperNoun
(en noun)page 27:
- But there was also a generous distribution of squibs, crackers, backarappers , sparklers, torches, dwarf-candles, elf-fountains, goblin-barkers and thunder-claps.
- He would sink like an express lift and leap like a deer: at times he was almost flat on his back and when the hammer cracked he often appeared to be standing on his nose: like a backarapper he fizzed up and down and
- It would have been so easy to remove these capricious intrusions of manner clashing with theme; so easy to afford quiet relief, as in the first half of the last chapter, instead of throwing in raillery like backarappers .
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