wapper

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A mischievous sprite.
    — "And a wapper, too; when I first saw it I thought it was a rabbit, and now it's bigger than a deer, and still a mile or two off," said Joe.
动词 v.
  1. To exhaust; to tire out. dialectal,obsolete,transitive
    — this is it, That makes the wapper'd widow wed again;
  2. To move weakly or tremulously; to flag. intransitive
    — But still he stode, his face to set awrye, And wappering turnid vp his white of eye.

词形变化

wappers present,singular,third-person wappering participle,present wappered participle,past wappered past wappers plural

词汇关系

相关词
wapper jaw wapper-jawed

词源

词源 1
Frequentative of wap; compare German dialect wappern, wippern (“to move up and down, to rock”).
词源 2
Borrowing from Flemish
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