Meaning of Carper | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A person who habitually carps, who talks too much and regularly finds fault.
2. A surname.

Equivalents

Examples

“Shame not these woods, / By putting on the cunning of a carper.”

“Come, let my carper to his life now look, And find there darker lines than in my book He findeth any […]”

“He censures everything, this zealous carper.”

“What is this sort of piece going to do when confronted with row upon row of coldly sober carpers?”

“[…] Lady Tipper […] shook her head in wounded defiance of all the carpers and whiners.”

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