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English
Etymology 1
From lap + -er.
Noun
lapper (plural lappers)
- One who laps liquid, who takes liquid in with the tongue.
1913, William Atherton Du Puy, Uncle Sam, Wonder Worker, page ?:...that recipient of the favors and caresses of the hearthstone, that lapper of milk from the national saucer, the cat.
1827, ?, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, page 470:The pupils of the modern school discover in [the lion] but the crafty, cruel, and cowardly lapper of blood.
- (in combination) Something (especially a race) that has a stated number of laps.
2001, Tim Bongard, Richard Petty: The Cars of the King, page ?:[…] Richard Petty Private Collection outran Buck Baker's '62 Chrysler to win the 200-lapper. One week later, Jim Paschal finished second to race winner Junior.
- (sports) A competitor who is one lap behind another, in the same race, and hence physically in front.
- One who wraps or folds.
- A mechanism that overlaps material to make it thicker; a lapping cylinder or lapping machine.
- (sailing) A headsail that overlaps the mast.
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Verb
lapper (third-person singular simple present lappers, present participle lappering, simple past and past participle lappered)
- To make a gentle splashing sound, as the sound of flowing water.
1900?, S.R. Crockett, chapter XXXVII, in The Red Axe, →ISBN, page 238:There was mockery of our foolhardy enterprise in the soft whispering sough of the water, as I heard it lapper beneath the ferry-boat that lay ready to cross to the other side.
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Norman
Etymology
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Compare French laper.
Verb
lapper
- (Jersey, onomatopoeia, transitive) to lap (a liquid)
- Synonym: cliapoter
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
lapper m
- indefinite plural of lapp