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carper | harper |

As a noun carper

is a person who habitually , who talks too much and regularly finds fault.

As a proper noun harper is

for a player of the harp.

carper

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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

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    * See also

    harper

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A harpist.
  • (obsolete) An old Irish brass coin bearing the emblem of a harp.
    • (Ben Jonson)
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