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Rapper vs Wapper - What's the difference?

rapper | wapper |

As nouns the difference between rapper and wapper

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

As a verb wapper is

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

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.

    • 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.
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