Snapper vs Schnapper - What's the difference?
snapper | schnapper | Alternative forms |
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.
Schnapper is a alternative form of snapper.
As nouns the difference between snapper and schnapper
is that snapper is one who, or that which, snaps while schnapper is an Australasian fish, species: Chrysophrys guttulatus; the porgy or snapper.snapper
English
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 .