Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A talker.
- n. One who carps; a caviler.
- n. One who prepares thistle-teazels for the cloth-napping machine.
Wiktionary
- n. a person who habitually carps, who talks too much and regularly finds fault
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who carps; a caviler.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone who constantly criticizes in a petty way
Examples
“Re the Norway trip; television coverage is gold dust, so the carper is an idiot.”
“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.”
“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.”
“As the Manitoba carper, Ms. Ingram, told the Winnipeg Free Press, "There are things men need and things women need.”
The Huffington Post: Jacob M. Appel: Are We Ready for Coed Hospital Rooms?
“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.”
“If carper and anonymous are right, I've still a long way to go before professionalism!”
“Who would have thunk it from our own Bull Moose, a Jewish carper: weary travels, religious epiphany, and a simple Menger.”
“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.”
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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
“A carper might have said that Eddy was the least bit vague on the subject of the dear old days.”
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reesetee Damn it, now I want to prepare thistle-teazels for the cloth-napping machine. Where do I sign up? Aug 13, 2010
ruzuzu "1. A talker.
2. One who carps; a caviler.
3. One who prepares thistle-teazels for the cloth-napping machine."
- Century Dictionary Aug 10, 2010