napper
See also: Napper
English
Etymology
nap + -er
Pronunciation
Audio (AU) (file)
Noun
napper (plural nappers)
- A person who takes a nap.
- (slang) The head.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:head
- 1911, Charles Collins; Fred E. Terry; E.A. Sheppard (lyrics and music), “Any Old Iron”:
- You look so dapper from your napper to your feet.
- 1917, Arthur Guy Empey, “Lewis Gun”, in Over the Top, G. P. Putnam's, page 297:
- Under fire when this magazine is emptied you shout for “ammo” but perhaps No. 2, the ammo carrier, is lying in the rear with a bullet through his napper.
- 2011, Jeremy Roberts, Let's Not And Say We Did (page 96)
- As he walked back to his flat after meekly apologising, he wondered why a severe pain in his napper could affect the lead in his pencil.
- (obsolete) A machine used to raise the nap on cloth.
- (obsolete) A sheepstealer.
- Hypernyms: see Thesaurus:rustler
Further reading
- Jonathon Green (2023), “napper n.1”, in Green's Dictionary of Slang
- Jonathon Green (2023), “napper n.2”, in Green's Dictionary of Slang
Anagrams
- papern, rappen
French
Etymology
nappe + -er
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /na.pe/
Audio (file)
Verb
napper
- (cooking) to cover (to cover something with sauce)
Conjugation
Conjugation of napper (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | napper | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | nappant /na.pɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | nappé /na.pe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | nappe /nap/ | nappes /nap/ | nappe /nap/ | nappons /na.pɔ̃/ | nappez /na.pe/ | nappent /nap/ |
| imperfect | nappais /na.pɛ/ | nappais /na.pɛ/ | nappait /na.pɛ/ | nappions /na.pjɔ̃/ | nappiez /na.pje/ | nappaient /na.pɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | nappai /na.pe/ | nappas /na.pa/ | nappa /na.pa/ | nappâmes /na.pam/ | nappâtes /na.pat/ | nappèrent /na.pɛʁ/ | |
| future | napperai /na.pʁe/ | napperas /na.pʁa/ | nappera /na.pʁa/ | napperons /na.pʁɔ̃/ | napperez /na.pʁe/ | napperont /na.pʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | napperais /na.pʁɛ/ | napperais /na.pʁɛ/ | napperait /na.pʁɛ/ | napperions /na.pə.ʁjɔ̃/ | napperiez /na.pə.ʁje/ | napperaient /na.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 | nappe /nap/ | nappes /nap/ | nappe /nap/ | nappions /na.pjɔ̃/ | nappiez /na.pje/ | nappent /nap/ |
| imperfect2 | nappasse /na.pas/ | nappasses /na.pas/ | nappât /na.pa/ | nappassions /na.pa.sjɔ̃/ | nappassiez /na.pa.sje/ | nappassent /na.pas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | nappe /nap/ | — | nappons /na.pɔ̃/ | nappez /na.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, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “napper”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
napper
- present of nappe