carper

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English

Etymology

From carp +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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(UK) IPA^(key): /kɑː(ɹ)pə(ɹ)/
Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)pə(ɹ)

Noun

carper (plural carpers)

A person who habitually carps, who talks too much and regularly finds fault.
- c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :
  Shame not these woods, / By putting on the cunning of a carper.
- 1678, John Bunyan, “The Author’s Apology for His Book”, in The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: , London: Nath Ponder , →OCLC:
  Come, let my carper to his life now look,
  And find there darker lines than in my book
  He findeth any […]
- 1908, Molière, translated by Curtis Hidden Page, Act I, and Scene I, Tartuffe‎, published 1664:
  He censures everything, this zealous carper.
- 1919 August, P. G. Wodehouse, “Prohibition and the Drama”, in Vanity Fair, page 21:
  What is this sort of piece going to do when confronted with row upon row of coldly sober carpers?
- 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 11, in The Line of Beauty , 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:
  […] Lady Tipper […] shook her head in wounded defiance of all the carpers and whiners.

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