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Wapper vs Dapper - What's the difference?

wapper | dapper |

As a noun wapper

is (uk|dialect) a gudgeon.

As a verb wapper

is to cause to shake; to move tremulously, as from weakness; to totter.

As an adjective dapper is

neat, trim.

wapper

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(en noun)
  • (UK, dialect) A gudgeon.

    • Etymology 2

    Frequentative of wap; compare (etyl) dialect wappern, wippern, to move up and down, to rock.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cause to shake; to move tremulously, as from weakness; to totter.
    • (Webster 1913) ----

    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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