Wapper vs Capper - What's the difference?
wapper | capper |
To cause to shake; to move tremulously, as from weakness; to totter.
(Webster 1913)
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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.
As nouns the difference between wapper and capper
is that wapper is (uk|dialect) a gudgeon while capper is one that caps.As a verb wapper
is to cause to shake; to move tremulously, as from weakness; to totter.wapper
English
Etymology 1
Etymology 2
Frequentative of wap; compare (etyl) dialect wappern, wippern, to move up and down, to rock.Verb
(en verb)capper
English
Noun
(en noun)citation