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Hopper vs Sopper - What's the difference?

hopper | sopper |

As a proper noun hopper

is .

As a noun sopper is

one who sops.

hopper

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A temporary storage bin, filled from the top and emptied from the bottom, often funnel-shaped.
  • A funnel-shaped section at the top of a drainpipe used to collect water, from above, from one or more smaller drainpipes.
  • One who hops.
  • The immature form of a locust.
  • The larva of a cheese fly.
  • An artificial fishing lure.
    • To catch a big fish, use a hopper that jumps across the pond surface.
  • A toilet.
  • * 2010 , Robert Hudson, Stories of an Unusual Life (page 250)
    • The fresh-water container for the house was above the ceiling directly over the toilet. One day, I was comfortably seated on the hopper minding my own business, when a large portion of the ceiling came crashing down
  • An escapement lever in a piano; a grasshopper.
  • A Sri Lankan food made from a fermented batter of rice flour, coconut milk, and palm toddy or yeast.
  • (obsolete) The game of hopscotch.
    • (Johnson)

    Derived terms

    * leaf-hopper * hip-hopper * in the hopper * rockhopper * space hopper * table-hopper

    External links

    (wikipedia "hopper") ----

    sopper

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who sops.
  • * 18?? , Thomas Hood, Ode to St. Swithin
    • The very Dryads are not dry, but soppers , / And from the Houses' eaves / Tumble eaves-droppers.''
    (Johnson)
    (Webster 1913) ---- ==Norwegian Bokmål==

    Noun