different between rapper vs tapper

English

Alternative forms

• rappuh

Etymology

rap +? -er

Pronunciation

• Homophones: wrapper
• Rhymes: -æp?(r)

Noun

rapper (plural rappers)

1. One who, or that which, raps or knocks.
   1. The knocker of a door.
   2. (historical, mining) A swinging knocker for making signals at the mouth of a shaft.
   3. A spiritualistic medium who claims to receive communications from spirits in the form of knocking sounds.
2. (music) A performer of rap music, or someone who raps in any form of music.

3. (obsolete, Scotland) A sword.
4. A flexible strip of metal, 45-60cm long, with handles at each end, used for Northumbrian rapper sword dancing.
5. A mechanical, or later electric, signalling device formerly used in the mines of north-eastern England to signal to the engineman that the cages carrying men or coals up and down the shaft were ready to be raised or lowered.
6. (colloquial, dated) A bold lie; a whopper.
7. (colloquial, dated) A loud oath.

Translations

Anagrams

• RepRap

Danish

Etymology 1

Noun

rapper c (singular definite rapperen, plural indefinite rappere)

1. rapper (practitioner of rap music)

Declension

Verb

rapper

1. present of rappe

Etymology 2

Verb

rapper

1. present of rappe

Dutch

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?p?r/
• Hyphenation: rap?per
• Rhymes: -?p?r

Adjective

rapper

1. Comparative form of rap

Etymology 2

From English rapper. Surface analysis rappen +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?p?r/ or as in English
• Hyphenation: rap?per

Noun

rapper m (plural rappers, diminutive rappertje n)

1. rapper (performer of rap music)

French

Etymology 1

English rap +? -er

Alternative forms

• raper

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.pe/

Verb

rapper

1. (music) To speak (lyrics) in the style of rap music.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English rapper.

Alternative forms

• rappeur (more common)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.pœ?/

Noun

rapper m (plural rappers)

1. (music) rapper

Portuguese

Noun

rapper m, f (plural rappers)

1. rapper (hip hop performer)

English

Etymology

tap +? -er.

Pronunciation

Noun

tapper (plural tappers)

1. One who makes a tapping noise.
   • 1836-37, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers

     A low tap was heard at the room door. Mr. Bob Sawyer looked expressively at his friend, and bade the tapper come in […]

2. A tap-dancer.
3. A phone tapper or wiretapper.
4. (baseball slang) A weakly hit ground ball.
5. (telegraphy) In early wireless telegraphs, a device used to shake loose the filings of a coherer.
6. (Britain, dialect) The lesser spotted woodpecker.
7. (US) A tapster.

Derived terms

• toe tapper, toe-tapper
• wheeltapper, wheel-tapper

Anagrams

• Trappe

Danish

Noun

tapper

1. indefinite plural of tap

Verb

tapper

1. present of tappe

Middle English

Noun

tapper

1. Alternative form of taper

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish dapper, from Middle Low German dapper, tapper. Further origin disputed. Possibly cognate with Old Norse dapr (“heavy”), German tapfer (“dauntless”) and English dapper.

Adjective

tapper (comparative tapprare, superlative tapprast)

1. brave

   Synonyms: modig, djärv, orädd

Declension

Derived terms

• tapperhet

References

• tapper in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• tapper in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• tapper in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• tapper in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)