napper

From nap +‎ -er.

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napper (plural nappers)

1. A person who takes a nap.
2. (slang) The head.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:head

   • 1911, Charles Collins, Fred E. Terry, E.A. Sheppard (lyrics and music), “Any Old Iron”:

     You look so dapper from your napper to your feet.

   • 1917, Arthur Guy Empey, “Lewis Gun”, in Over the Top, G. P. Putnam's, page 297:

     Under fire when this magazine is emptied you shout for “ammo” but perhaps No. 2, the ammo carrier, is lying in the rear with a bullet through his napper.

   • 2011, Jeremy Roberts, Let's Not And Say We Did, page 96:

     As he walked back to his flat after meekly apologising, he wondered why a severe pain in his napper could affect the lead in his pencil.

3. (obsolete) A machine used to raise the nap on cloth.
4. (obsolete) A sheepstealer.

   Hypernyms: see Thesaurus:rustler

• “napper n.¹”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present
• “napper n.²”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present

• parpen, papern, rappen

From nappe +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): /na.pe/

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napper

1. (cooking) to cover (to cover something with sauce)

• “napper”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

napper

1. present of nappe