different between gapes vs gaper

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e?ps/

Verb

gapes

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gape

Noun

gapes

1. plural of gape
2. (uncountable) A fit of yawning.

   The gapes is contagious: when one person gets the gapes, pretty soon you've got a roomful of gapers.

3. (uncountable) A disease of young poultry and other birds, caused by a parasitic nematode worm in the windpipe, and having uneasy gaping as a symptom.

   The gapes has gotten to many of the birds.

Anagrams

• Gaspé, pages

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

gapes

1. passive form of gape

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From Middle English gaper, equivalent to gape +? -er.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e?p?(r)

Noun

gaper (plural gapers)

1. One who gapes; a starer.
2. Any of several species of burrowing clams.
3. The comber, a fish of the species Serranus cabrilla.
4. The fish Champsodon capensis
5. (US, slang) An inexperienced skier.
   • 2017, Brendan Leonard, The Great Outdoors: Everything You Need to Know Before Heading Into the Wild, p. 295:

     If you want to avoid looking like a gaper, just keep yourself from looking sloppy and you should be okay.

Synonyms

• (fish): comber

Hyponyms

• (burrowing clams): king clam

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• grape, pager, parge

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch gapere. Equivalent to gapen +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??a?.p?r/
• Hyphenation: ga?per
• Rhymes: -a?p?r

Noun

gaper m (plural gapers, diminutive gapertje n)

1. A yawner, one who yawns.
2. A figurehead with an open mouth used as the shop sign of a pharmacy.

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

gaper

1. present of gape