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Tapper vs Tappee - What's the difference?

tapper | tappee |

As nouns the difference between tapper and tappee

is that tapper is one who taps while tappee is a person who is subjected to a wiretap.

tapper

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who taps
  • * Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers
    • A low tap was heard at the room door. Mr. Bob Sawyer looked expressively at his friend, and bade the tapper come in
  • A tap-dancer
  • A phone tapper or wiretapper
  • (US) A tapster
  • (telegraphy) In early wireless telegraphs, a device used to shake loose the filings of a coherer.
  • (UK, dialect) The lesser spotted woodpecker.

    • tappee

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who is subjected to a wiretap
  • *{{quote-news, 1999, August 5, , Judge Sends Clinton - And Everyone - a $90,000 Message, Seattle Post-Intelligencer citation
    • , passage=Maryland law protects individual civil liberties by forbidding wiretapping without the consent of the tappee . }}