Capper vs Dapper - What's the difference?
capper | dapper |
One that caps.
A device or person that applies caps, as to bullets or bottles.
A person that makes or sells caps.
A finale.
* {{quote-news, 2009, February 1, Joe Queenan, Super Bowl Suits, New York Times
, passage=The real capper is when St. John starts fawning over Hugh Hefner , host of the finest Super Bowl party known to man, musing: “The question isn’t whether Hef is the hippest octogenarian on the planet. }}
(US, slang, dated) A by-bidder; a decoy for gamblers.
Neat, trim.
* 1892 , , The Slave Of The Lamp :
Stylishly dressed, neatly dressed, spiffy.
* 1917 , , The Man With Two Left Feet :
As a noun capper
is one that caps.As an adjective dapper is
neat, trim.capper
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*dapper
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(en adjective)- This entrance is through a little courtyard, in which is the stable and coach-house combined, where Madame Perinere, a lady who paints the magic word "Modes" beneath her name on the door-post of number seventeen, keeps the dapper little cart and pony which carry her bonnets to the farthest corner of Paris.
- Going down the street, you would meet a typical commercial traveller, dapper and alert.
