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Tapper vs Tipper - What's the difference?

tapper | tipper |

As nouns the difference between tapper and tipper

is that tapper is one who taps while tipper is someone who tips, someone who gives a tip.

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.

    • tipper

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone who tips, someone who gives a tip.
    • The Americans are among the most generous tippers in the world.
  • A kind of ale brewed with brackish water obtained from a particular well; -- so called from the first brewer of it, one Thomas Tipper.
  • (slang) A small moustache.
    • English agent nouns