Carper vs Carped - What's the difference?
carper | carped |
a person who habitually , who talks too much and regularly finds fault
* 1605–1608': By putting on the cunning of a '''carper — William Shakespeare, ''Timon of Athens , 1605–1608
* 1678': Come, let my '''carper to his life now look, / And find there darker lines than in my book — John Bunyan, ''The Pilgrim's Progress , 1678
* 1909–1914':He censures everything, this zealous '''carper . — Curtis Hidden Page's translation of ''Tartuffe or the Hypocrite by Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere, 1909–1914
(carp)
Any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae'', especially the common carp, ''Cyprinus carpio .
To complain about a fault; to harp on.
(obsolete) To say; to tell.
(obsolete) To find fault with; to censure.
As a noun carper
is a person who habitually , who talks too much and regularly finds fault.As a verb carped is
(carp).carper
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* See alsocarped
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* *carp
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(wikipedia carp)Etymology 1
From (etyl) carpe, from .Noun
(en-noun)See also
* koiEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- (Dryden)