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Propper vs Cropper - What's the difference?

propper | cropper |

As nouns the difference between propper and cropper

is that propper is one who or that which props while cropper is a fall, a tumble; see come a cropper.

As a proper noun Cropper is

{{surname|A=An|English occupational|from=occupations}} for a cropper.

propper

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who or that which props.
  • * 1999 , Sandy Jones, Guide to Baby Products (page 58)
    • Baby proppers pose dangers. The latest information on the relationship between baby positioning and SIDS has led to a multitude of new products designed to prop babies on their sides or backs.
  • * 1973 , Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince (page 47)
    • I do not mean that she stood around in the road, but she moved in a world of business men, golf-club bar proppers and night-club hounds, who certainly regarded her in this light.
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    cropper

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a fall, a tumble; see come a cropper
  • * 1900 , Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams'', ''Avon Books , (translated by James Strachey) pg. 185:
    • But to myself I thought: ‘Considering that for eight whole years I sat on the front bench as top of the class while he drifted about somewhere in the middle, he can hardly fail to nourish a wish, left over from his schooldays, that some day or other I may come a complete cropper.’

    Etymology 2

    a bird's crop

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a breed of domestic pigeon with large crop

    • Etymology 3

    an agricultural crop

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a person who nurtures and gathers a crop
  • a variety of plant producing a good harvest
    • That potato I grew last year was a good cropper .
  • A machine for cropping, as for shearing off bolts or rod iron, or for facing cloth.