Dapper vs Zapper - What's the difference?
dapper | zapper |
Neat, trim.
* 1892 , , The Slave Of The Lamp :
Stylishly dressed, neatly dressed, spiffy.
* 1917 , , The Man With Two Left Feet :
(colloquial) A remote control for a television.
A device that electrocutes ("zaps") with a high voltage, e.g. a bug zapper.
(figuratively, by extension) Anything that exterminates.
* 1989 , Microtimes (volume 6, page 140)
* 2009 , Jeffrey Bernstein, Liking the Child You Love
As an adjective dapper
is neat, trim.As a noun zapper is
(colloquial) a remote control for a television.dapper
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- 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.
- Going down the street, you would meet a typical commercial traveller, dapper and alert.
Derived terms
* Dapper DanAnagrams
* ----zapper
English
Noun
(en noun)- The news is starting on the other channel; hand me the zapper .
- If games are your life, the choice of a joystick is desperately important. Casual alien-zappers can get by with the cheapest generic Taiwanese clone-stick
- You are going to go from being a toxic-thought overreactor to a toxic-thought zapper .