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Clapper vs Plapper - What's the difference?

clapper | plapper |

As verbs the difference between clapper and plapper

is that clapper is to ring a bell by pulling a rope attached to the clapper while plapper is to make a noise with the lips.

As a noun clapper

is one who claps or clapper can be (label) a rabbit burrow.

clapper

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who claps.
  • An object so suspended inside a bell that it may hit the bell and cause it to ring.
  • A wooden mechanical device used as a scarecrow; bird-scaring rattle, a wind-rattle or a wind-clapper.
  • (label) A pounding block.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To ring a bell by pulling a rope attached to the clapper.
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    • Etymology 2

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (label) A rabbit burrow.
    • (Webster 1913) ----

    plapper

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to make a noise with the lips
  • :* 1922': She took no notice while he read by rote a solfa fable for her, '''plappering flatly — James Joyce, ''Ulysses