Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who prepares thistle-teazels for the cloth-napping machine.
- noun A talker.
- noun One who carps; a caviler.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who carps; a caviler.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a person who habitually
carps , who talks too much and regularly finds fault
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- noun someone who constantly criticizes in a petty way
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Examples
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Re the Norway trip; television coverage is gold dust, so the carper is an idiot.
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As a gay American – I just want to thank all of you for picking up on the bigoted statement from Knotts and calling him on the carper for it.
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As the Manitoba carper, Ms. Ingram, told the Winnipeg Free Press, "There are things men need and things women need."
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The next night Maddow had the intellectual integrity to write the speech she wished Obama had given, an exercise that, in my view, elevates her from carper to critic in the best sense of the term.
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If you felt good about Nixon pursuing an honorable end to the war in Vietnam, you were comfortable with his escalation into Cambodia and carper-bombing of the North.
Hullabaloo 2008
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Who would have thunk it from our own Bull Moose, a Jewish carper: weary travels, religious epiphany, and a simple Menger.
Archive 2005-08-01 2005
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If carper and anonymous are right, I've still a long way to go before professionalism!
Hobbyists Miss Snark 2005
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Who would have thunk it from our own Bull Moose, a Jewish carper: weary travels, religious epiphany, and a simple Menger.
Bull Moose 2005
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But when I ask him how he sees himself at 60 (and it's quite clear that he'll be a desiccated carper to rank with William Burroughs) his hackles rise.
FallNews - they grease the roads! *truckers' pin-up edition* 1999
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There is no such confirmed carper at the condition of his country, yet no one really so profoundly convinced of its perfection.
New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 April-September, 1915 Various
ruzuzu commented on the word carper
"1. A talker.
2. One who carps; a caviler.
3. One who prepares thistle-teazels for the cloth-napping machine."
- Century Dictionary
August 11, 2010
reesetee commented on the word carper
Damn it, now I want to prepare thistle-teazels for the cloth-napping machine. Where do I sign up?
August 14, 2010