different between raper vs reaper

English

Etymology

rape +? -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??e?p?(?)/
• Rhymes: -e?p?(?)

Noun

raper (plural rapers)

1. (informal) A person who has raped someone; a rapist.
   • 1963, Edwin M. Moseley, Pseudonyms of Christ in the Modern Novel: Motifs and Methods (page 149)

     "Jesus Christ!" Grimm says, profanely pushing Hightower aside as he goes on to shoot Christmas and to emasculate him, according to the custom of lynchers punishing the dark rapers of white women.

   • 1995, Simon Goldhill, Foucault's Virginity (page 71)

     Turning round, Cleitophon finds he is standing by a painter's studio which is exhibiting a painting of the whole story of the rape of Philomela, including the tapestry she weaves telling her own story after her raper, Tereus, has cut out her tongue.

Anagrams

• parer

French

Alternative forms

• rapper
• Homophone: râper

Etymology

Borrowed from English rap.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.pe/

Verb

raper

1. To rap (to sing rap songs).

Conjugation

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

raper

1. present of rape.

Polish

Etymology

From English rapper.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ra.p?r/

Noun

raper m pers (feminine raperka)

1. (music) rapper

Declension

Derived terms

• (adjective) raperski

Related terms

• (verb) rapowa?
• (noun) rap
• (adjective) rapowy

Further reading

• raper in Polish dictionaries at PWN

English

Etymology

From Middle English reper, repare, repere, *riper (the last, attested only in surnames Ryper, Riper, etc.), from Old English r?pere (“reaper”), equivalent to reap +? -er.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -i?p?(r)

Noun

reaper (plural reapers)

1. One who reaps; a person employed to harvest crops from the fields by reaping.
2. A machine used to harvest crops.
3. (often with initial capital) Short for Grim Reaper.
   • 1976, Buck Dharma (Blue Öyster Cult), "Don't Fear the Reaper" (song)

     Don't fear the Reaper / We'll be able to fly

   • 1999, Karl S. Guthke, The Gender of Death: A Cultural History in Art and Literature (page 7)

     Why is the Grim Reaper a man? True, the noun ending would theoretically allow us to visualize the reaper as a woman as well, but we don't.

Derived terms

• Grim Reaper

Related terms

• reap

Translations

Anagrams

• Pearre, Perera, rerape