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Definition of Carper
1. Noun. Someone who constantly criticizes in a petty way.
Definition of Carper
1. n. One who carps; a caviler.
Definition of Carper
1. Noun. a person who habitually carps, who talks too much and regularly finds fault ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Carper
1. one that carps [n -S] - See also: carps
Lexicographical Neighbors of Carper
Literary usage of Carper
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell by Thomas Bayly Howell (1816)
"Did the prisoner own that he acted by the French king's commission ? Dit) you
know any tiling of his hiving a French commission ? Mr. carper. You may go on. ..."
2. Rose's Notes on the United States Supreme Court Reports (2 Dallas to 241 by Walter Malins Rose, Charles Lawrence Thompson, United States Supreme Court (1918)
"carper, 112 Ind. 30, 2 Am. St. Rep. 147, 13 NE 123, Griffin v. Overman Wheel
Co., 61 Fed. 572, 9 CCA 542, and Canadian Pac. RR Co. v. Clark, 74 Fed. ..."
3. Reports of the Decisions of the Court of Appeals of the State of Colorado by Colorado Court of Appeals, William E. Beck, Thomas M. Robinson, John Alonzo Gordon (1905)
"A. Lons- berry, who, on the same day, after executing to Rogers a trust deed of
the property to secure the payment of $2500, conveyed it to carper. ..."
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