toper
EnglishEdit
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NounEdit
toper (plural topers)
- (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, […]
- 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “The Spouter-Inn”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, OCLC 57395299, page 16:
- The liquor soon mounted into their heads, as it generally does even with the arrantest topers newly landed from sea, and they began capering about most obstreperously.
- 1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “Narrating How Lieutenant Puddock and Captain Devereux Brewed a Bowl of Punch, and How They Sang and Discoursed Together”, in The House by the Church-yard. […], volume I, London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], OCLC 18952474, page 304:
- [...] Mrs. Irons rebelled in her bed, and refused peremptorily to get up again, to furnish the musical topers with rum and lemons. [...]
TranslationsEdit
drunkard — see drunkard
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FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Onomatopoeic, from top + -er.
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
toper
- to agree, consent
- to shake on it
ConjugationEdit
Conjugation of toper (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | toper | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | topant /tɔ.pɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | topé /tɔ.pe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | tope /tɔp/ |
topes /tɔp/ |
tope /tɔp/ |
topons /tɔ.pɔ̃/ |
topez /tɔ.pe/ |
topent /tɔp/ |
| imperfect | topais /tɔ.pɛ/ |
topais /tɔ.pɛ/ |
topait /tɔ.pɛ/ |
topions /tɔ.pjɔ̃/ |
topiez /tɔ.pje/ |
topaient /tɔ.pɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | topai /tɔ.pe/ |
topas /tɔ.pa/ |
topa /tɔ.pa/ |
topâmes /tɔ.pam/ |
topâtes /tɔ.pat/ |
topèrent /tɔ.pɛʁ/ | |
| future | toperai /tɔ.pʁe/ |
toperas /tɔ.pʁa/ |
topera /tɔ.pʁa/ |
toperons /tɔ.pʁɔ̃/ |
toperez /tɔ.pʁe/ |
toperont /tɔ.pʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | toperais /tɔ.pʁɛ/ |
toperais /tɔ.pʁɛ/ |
toperait /tɔ.pʁɛ/ |
toperions /tɔ.pə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
toperiez /tɔ.pə.ʁje/ |
toperaient /tɔ.pʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | tope /tɔp/ |
topes /tɔp/ |
tope /tɔp/ |
topions /tɔ.pjɔ̃/ |
topiez /tɔ.pje/ |
topent /tɔp/ |
| imperfect2 | topasse /tɔ.pas/ |
topasses /tɔ.pas/ |
topât /tɔ.pa/ |
topassions /tɔ.pa.sjɔ̃/ |
topassiez /tɔ.pa.sje/ |
topassent /tɔ.pas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | tope /tɔp/ |
— | topons /tɔ.pɔ̃/ |
topez /tɔ.pe/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
| 2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further readingEdit
- “toper”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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