toper
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EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
toper (plural topers)
- (now literary) Someone who drinks 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, […]
- A Toper this! He plied his glass
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:
- 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, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard
- 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
AnagramsEdit
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Onomatopoeic, from top + -er.
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
toper
- to high five
ConjugationEdit
Conjugation of toper (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| present participle | topant /tɔ.pɑ̃/ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| past participle | topé /tɔ.pe/ | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | toper | ||||||
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | topant /tɔ.pɑ̃/ | ||||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| 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 Only usable with 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 le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).