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wapper¹

Where it comes from

Frequentative of wap; compare German dialect wappern, wippern (“to move up and down, to rock”).

verb wappers · wappering · wappered

  1. dialectal, obsolete, transitive To exhaust; to tire out. this is it, That makes the wapper'd widow wed again;
  2. intransitive To move weakly or tremulously; to flag. But still he stode, his face to set awrye, And wappering turnid vp his white of eye.

wapper²

Where it comes from

Borrowing from Flemish

noun wappers

  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.

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"wapper." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/wapper. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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"wapper." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/wapper.

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@misc{wapper_2026,
  title = {wapper},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/wapper},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}