different between toper vs toter

English

Etymology

From tope +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?t??p?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?to?p?/
• Rhymes: -??p?(?)

Noun

toper (plural topers)

1. (now literary) Someone who drinks alcoholic beverages a lot; a drunkard.

   Synonyms: alcoholic, drunkard, tosspot; see also Thesaurus:drunkard

   • 1818, John Keats, “On Some Skulls in Beauly Abbey, near Inverness”:

     A Toper this! He plied his glass / More strictly than he said the Mass, […]

Translations

Anagrams

• -trope, Perot, Petro, Porte, opter, petro, petro-, ptero-, repot, tepor, trope

French

Etymology

Onomatopoeic, from top +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?.pe/

Verb

toper

1. to high five

Conjugation

Further reading

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

Norman

Etymology

From English tope + -er.

Verb

toper

1. (Jersey) to tope

English

Etymology

tote +? -er

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??t?(?)

Noun

toter (plural toters)

1. One who totes or carries something.
   • 1633, Ben Jonson, A Tale of a Tub

     His name was Vadian, and a cunning toter

   • 2004, Steve Ward, Holy Enigma! (page 31)

     Bible toters tend to carry the book around as a symbol of sanctity.

Translations

See also

• stone-toter

Anagrams

• Otter, Treto, ortet, otter, toret, torte

German

Pronunciation

Adjective

toter

1. inflection of tot:
   1. strong/mixed nominative masculine singular
   2. strong genitive/dative feminine singular
   3. strong genitive plural