different between carper vs carder

English

Etymology

carp +? -er

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k??(?)p?(?)/
• Rhymes: -??(r)p?(r)

Noun

carper (plural carpers)

1. A person who habitually carps, who talks too much and regularly finds fault.
   • c. 1607, William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, Act IV, Scene 3,^[1]

     Shame not these woods, / By putting on the cunning of a carper.

   • 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress, The Author’s Apology for his Book,^[2]

     Come, let my carper to his life now look,

     And find there darker lines than in my book

     He findeth any […]

   • 1908, Molière, Tartuffe (1664), translated by Curtis Hidden Page, Act I, Scene I,^[3]

     He censures everything, this zealous carper.

   • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, Bloomsbury, 2005, Chapter 11 (iii),

     […] Lady Tipper […] shook her head in wounded defiance of all the carpers and whiners.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:complainer

English

Etymology

card +? -er

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?k??.d?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d?(?)
• Homophones: carter, Carter (in accents with flapping)

Noun

carder (plural carders)

1. A person employed to card wool.
2. A carding machine.
3. A criminal who steals information from credit cards.
4. (slang) A person who distributes tart cards.

Translations

Anagrams

• Crader, Redcar, red car

French

Etymology

carde +? -er

Verb

carder

1. to card (use a carding machine)

Conjugation

Derived terms

• cardage

Further reading

• “carder” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).