Damper vs Dapper - What's the difference?

damper | dapper |

As adjectives the difference between damper and dapper

is that damper is (damp) while dapper is neat, trim.

As a noun damper

is something that damps or checks:.

damper

English

Noun

(en noun)

Something that damps or checks:

# A valve or movable plate in the flue or other part of a stove, furnace, etc., used to check or regulate the draught of air.

# A contrivance (sordine), as in a pianoforte, to deaden vibrations; or, as in other pieces of mechanism, to check some action at a particular time.

# Something that kills the mood.

#* (rfdate) W. Black

Nor did Sabrina?s presence seem to act as any damper at the modest little festivities.

# A device that decreases the oscillations of a system.

(chiefly, Australia) Bread made from a basic recipe of flour, water, milk, and salt, but without yeast.

* 1827, , Two Years in New South Wales'', ii.190, quoted in G. A. Wilkes, ''A Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms , 1978, ISBN 0-424-00034-2,

The farm-men usually bake their flour into flat cakes, which they call dampers , and cook these in the ashes.

* (Rudyard Kipling), His Gift

Adjective

(head)

(damp)

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dapper

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Neat, trim.

* 1892 , , The Slave Of The Lamp :

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.

Stylishly dressed, neatly dressed, spiffy.

* 1917 , , The Man With Two Left Feet :

Going down the street, you would meet a typical commercial traveller, dapper and alert.

Derived terms

* Dapper Dan

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