different between toyer vs toper

English

Etymology

toy +? -er

Noun

toyer (plural toyers)

1. One who toys; one who is full of trifling tricks; a trifler.

   She had a reputation as a toyer with men's hearts.

Anagrams

• Torey

Middle English

Adverb

toyer

1. Alternative form of toyere

Adjective

toyer

1. Alternative form of toyere

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