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Toper vs Toter - What's the difference?

toper | toter |

As nouns the difference between toper and toter

is that toper is someone who drinks a lot; a drunkard while toter is one who totes or carries something.

toper

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Someone who drinks a lot; a drunkard.
  • * 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick :
    • The liquor soon mounted into their heads, as it generally does even with the arrantest topers newly landed from sea, and they began capering about most obstreperously.

    Anagrams

    * ----

    toter

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who totes or carries something.
  • * 2004 , Steve Ward, Holy Enigma! (page 31)
    • Bible toters tend to carry the book around as a symbol of sanctity.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=June 26, author=, title=The Fast-Draw-but-Don’t-Drink Law, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=The governor found no safety in provisions that ban the licensed gun toters from drinking alcohol ?— is it the honor system or will bartenders do a search? }}

    See also

    * stone-toter ----