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Definition of Didappers
1. didapper [n] - See also: didapper
Lexicographical Neighbors of Didappers
Literary usage of Didappers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1847)
"Amongst fowl, " peacocks and pigeons, all fenny fowl are forbidden, as ducks,
geese, swans, herons, cranes, coots, didappers, ..."
2. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1909)
"... he classes him among the didappers, who, after diving in mud, astonish their
friends by coming up in unexpected places, and in the ' Essay on Man ' he ..."
3. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne (1887)
"... nor even foal's flesh, by any means ; and carefully abstain (that is, as much
as thou canst) from peacocks, cranes, coots, didappers, and water-hens. ..."
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