different between trapper vs tapper

English

Etymology

trap +? -er

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?t?æp?/
• Rhymes: -æp?(r)

Noun

trapper (plural trappers)

1. One who traps animals; one who makes a business of trapping animals for their furs.
2. (mining) A child who opens and shuts a trapdoor in a gallery or level.
3. An ornamental covering for a horse. See trapping and caparison.
4. (slang) A drug dealer.
5. (slang) A performer of trap music.

Translations

Danish

Noun

trapper c

1. indefinite plural of trappe

Dutch

Etymology

From trappen +? -er.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?p?r

Noun

trapper m (plural trappers, diminutive trappertje n)

1. bicycle pedal

   Synonym: pedaal

French

Etymology

trappe +? -er

Verb

trapper

1. To trap (hunt using traps)

Conjugation

Derived terms

• trappage

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

trapper m or f

1. indefinite plural of trapp

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

trapper f

1. indefinite plural of trapp

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)