Napper vs Snapper - What's the difference?
napper | snapper |
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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One who, or that which, snaps.
Any of approximately 100 different species of fish.
# (Australia, New Zealand) The fish , especially an adult of the species.
# (US) Any of the family Lutjanidae of percoid fishes, especially the red snapper.
(Ireland, slang) A (human) baby.
(American football) The player who snaps the ball to start the play.
(US) Small, paper-wrapped item containing a minute quantity of explosive composition coated on small bits of sand, which explodes noisily when thrown onto a hard surface.
(slang) One who takes snaps; a photographer.
(US, informal) The snapping turtle.
The green woodpecker, or yaffle.
A snap beetle.
As a noun napper
is a person who takes a nap.As a verb snapper is
.napper
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Noun
(en noun)snapper
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Alternative forms
* schnapper (fish)Noun
(en noun)- a snapper -up of trifles
- the snapper of a whip
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Hyponyms
* (adolescent), squire (pre-adult)1990''', Richard Allan, ''Australian Fish and How to Catch Them'', ISBN 1-86302-674-6, page 309.''“Snapper”'', entry in '''1966 , ''An Encyclopedia of New Zealand .