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Rapper vs Dapper - What's the difference?

rapper | dapper |

As a noun rapper

is one who, or that which, raps or knocks; specifically, the knocker of a door.

As an adjective dapper is

neat, trim.

rapper

English

(wikipedia rapper)

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who, or that which, raps or knocks; specifically, the knocker of a door.
  • A performer of rap music.
  • A sword.
  • A flexible strip of metal, 45-60cm long, with handles at each end, used for .
  • A mechanical, or later electric, signalling device formerly used in the mines of north-eastern England to signal to the engineman that the cages carrying men or coals up and down the shaft were ready to be raised or lowered.

    • 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

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