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Dapper vs Napper - What's the difference?

dapper | napper |

As an adjective dapper

is neat, trim.

As a noun napper is

a person who takes a nap.

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

    Anagrams

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    napper

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a person who takes a nap
  • (obsolete) a sheep stealer
  • (slang) the head
  • (obsolete) a machine used to raise the nap on cloth
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