tapper
English edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
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Noun edit
tapper (plural tappers)
- One who makes a tapping noise.
- 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter name)”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:
- A low tap was heard at the room door. Mr. Bob Sawyer looked expressively at his friend, and bade the tapper come in […]
- A tap-dancer.
- A phone tapper or wiretapper.
- (baseball slang) A weakly hit ground ball.
- (telegraphy) In early wireless telegraphs, a device used to shake loose the filings of a coherer.
- (British, dialect) The lesser spotted woodpecker.
- (US) A tapster.
- (sports) An assistant in the sport of paraswimming who taps blind or visually impaired swimmers with a pole to indicate when they should turn around.
Derived terms edit
Anagrams edit
Danish edit
Noun edit
tapper
- indefinite plural of tap
Verb edit
tapper
Estonian edit
Etymology edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
tapper (genitive tapri, partitive taprit)
- battle axe (ancient military weapon)
- Synonyms: sõjakirves, võitluskirves
Declension edit
Declension of tapper (ÕS type 2/õpik, no gradation) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | tapper | taprid | |
accusative | nom. | ||
gen. | tapri | ||
genitive | taprite | ||
partitive | taprit | tapreid | |
illative | taprisse | tapritesse tapreisse | |
inessive | tapris | taprites tapreis | |
elative | taprist | tapritest tapreist | |
allative | taprile | tapritele tapreile | |
adessive | tapril | tapritel tapreil | |
ablative | taprilt | tapritelt tapreilt | |
translative | tapriks | tapriteks tapreiks | |
terminative | taprini | tapriteni | |
essive | taprina | tapritena | |
abessive | taprita | tapriteta | |
comitative | tapriga | tapritega |
Derived terms edit
noun
Further reading edit
- “tapper”, in [PSV] Eesti keele põhisõnavara sõnastik [Dictionary of Estonian Basic Vocabulary] (in Estonian) (online version, not updated), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2014
- “tapper”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
- “tapper”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
- tapper in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
Middle English edit
Noun edit
tapper
- Alternative form of taper
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
tapper (comparative tapprare, superlative tapprast)
Declension edit
Inflection of tapper | |||
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Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
Common singular | tapper | tapprare | tapprast |
Neuter singular | tappert | tapprare | tapprast |
Plural | tappra | tapprare | tapprast |
Masculine plural3 | tappre | tapprare | tapprast |
Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
Masculine singular1 | tappre | tapprare | tappraste |
All | tappra | tapprare | tappraste |
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic |
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References edit
- 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)
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