different between hopper vs popper

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English hoppere, alteration of *hoppe (found in gras-hoppe (“grasshopper”)), from Old English hoppa (“one who hops, hopper”), equivalent to hop +? -er. Cognate with Dutch hopper (“hopper”), Swedish hoppare (“hopper, jumper”), Icelandic hoppari (“hopper”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?h?p.?(?)/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /?h?p.?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?h?.p?/
• Rhymes: -?p?(r)

Noun

hopper (plural hoppers)

1. One who or that which hops.
2. A temporary storage bin, filled from the top and emptied from the bottom, often funnel-shaped.
3. A funnel-shaped section at the top of a drainpipe used to collect water, from above, from one or more smaller drainpipes.
4. A device that feeds material into a machine.
5. Various insects
   1. A grasshopper or locust, especially:
      1. The immature form of a locust.
   2. The larva of a cheese fly.
   3. A leafhopper.
   4. Any of various hesperiid butterflies.
6. An artificial fishing lure.

   To catch a big fish, use a hopper that jumps across the pond surface.

7. (slang) A toilet.
   • 2010, Robert Hudson, Stories of an Unusual Life (page 250)

     The fresh-water container for the house was above the ceiling directly over the toilet. One day, I was comfortably seated on the hopper minding my own business, when a large portion of the ceiling came crashing down […]

8. (music) An escapement lever in a piano.
9. (obsolete) The game of hopscotch.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Johnson to this entry?)

10. A window with hinges at the bottom, opened by tilting vertically.
11. A hopper car.
12. (chess) A fairy chess piece which moves only by jumping over another piece.
13. A person or machine that picks hops.

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Translations

Further reading

hopper on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From Sinhalese ???? (?ppa).

Noun

hopper (plural hoppers)

1. A Sri Lankan food made from a fermented batter of rice flour, coconut milk, and palm toddy or yeast.

Danish

Noun

hopper c

1. indefinite plural of hoppe

Verb

hopper

1. present of hoppe

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

hopper m or f

1. indefinite plural of hoppe

Verb

hopper

1. present of hoppe

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

hopper f

1. indefinite plural of hoppe

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p?p.?/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /?p?p.?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p?.p?/
• Rhymes: -?p?(r)
• Homophone: pauper (in accents with the cot-caught merger)

Etymology 1

From Middle English poppere, equivalent to pop +? -er (suffix forming agent noun).

Noun

popper (plural poppers)

1. One who or that which pops.
2. (obsolete) A dagger.
   • 14thC, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Reves Tale, The Canterbury Tales, 2003, Walter W. Skeat (editor) Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Part 2, The Reeve's Prologue ,

     A joly popper baar he in his pouche ; / Ther was no man for peril dorste him touche.

3. A short piece of twisted string tied to the end of a whip that creates the distinctive sound when the whip is thrown or cracked.

   Synonym: cracker

4. (fishing) A floating lure designed to splash when the fishing line is twitched.
5. Either of a pair of interlocking discs commonly used in place of buttons to fasten clothing, a snap fastener.

   Synonyms: snap, snap fastener, press stud

6. A device that pops kernels of corn to produce popcorn.
7. A stuffed and usually breaded jalapeño.
   • 2003, James D. Campbell, Mr. Chilehead: Adventures in the Taste of Pain (page 168)

     You mix habs into the cheese before stuffing your poppers […]

8. A looner (balloon fetishist) who prefers to burst balloons.
9. (informal, countable) A capsule of amyl nitrite, a recreational drug used during sex.
   • Looks like she's had too many poppers.
10. (uncountable) Amyl nitrate.

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Popper (“a brand name”), a brand name owned by Queensland United Foods; from 1978.

Noun

popper (plural poppers)

1. (Australia) Synonym of juice box

Spanish

Noun

popper m (plural poppers)

1. popper (capsule for recreational use as a sexual stimulant)