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clapper en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈklæpɚ/ (General-American)

Etymology

Etymology tree English clap Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English clapper From clap + -er.

Meanings

  1. One who claps; a person who applauds by clapping the hands.
  2. An object so suspended inside a bell that it may hit the bell and cause it to ring; a clanger or tongue.
  3. A wooden mechanical device used as a scarecrow; bird-scaring rattle, a wind-rattle or a wind-clapper.
    • "Sir, sir! folks' tongues go like the clappers in the fields to drive away the blackbirds. A very little wind makes 'em rattle wonderfully." 1896, Sabine Baring-Gould, Arminell, a social romance, Ch. 37:
  4. A clapstick (musical instrument).
  5. A pounding block.
  6. The chattering damsel of a mill.
  7. A slapshot
  8. The hinged part of a clapperboard, used to synchronise images and soundtrack, or the clapperboard itself.
  9. (slang) A person's tongue.
    • Emilia 'tis true could use her clapper with great Dexterity, but he had the same advantages against her, which this had against him; Olimpia 's Tongue was also well hung but she ever had reason on her side, which he with reason could never either blame or oppose, and by both these came his Fortune: […] 1683, S. P., The Dutch Rogue, Or, Gusman of Amsterdam, page 238:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
clappers Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

clapper talk · clapper board · clapperboard · clapper rail · happy clapper · clapperclaw · clapper-loader · clapperboy · clapper-valve · like the clappers · handclapper · clapperless

Synonyms

musicstick (musical instrument) · clapstick (musical instrument)

Translations (65)

it batacchio (the tongue of a bell) · ga boschrann (the tongue of a bell) · sc piròne (the tongue of a bell) · vec batòcolo (the tongue of a bell) · sc batazu (the tongue of a bell) · nl klepper (rattle) · cs klapačka (rattle) · fi kieli (the tongue of a bell) · eo koro (the tongue of a bell) · fa جرس (the tongue of a bell) · cs srdce zvonu (the tongue of a bell) · sc batalzu (the tongue of a bell) · nl klepel (the tongue of a bell) · fr batail (the tongue of a bell) · de Schwengel (the tongue of a bell) · gl batel (the tongue of a bell) · fi räikkä (rattle) · hu harangnyelv (the tongue of a bell) · mi pākōkō (rattle) · vec batidor (the tongue of a bell) · wa bata (the tongue of a bell) · vec batocio (the tongue of a bell) · hu kereplő (rattle) · cs řehtačka (rattle) · is kólfur (the tongue of a bell) · hy լեզվակ (the tongue of a bell) · vec batòc (the tongue of a bell) · ru язы́к (the tongue of a bell) · dsb palica (the tongue of a bell) · cs srdce (the tongue of a bell) · gsw Challe (the tongue of a bell) · he עִנְבָּל (the tongue of a bell) · sc battazu (the tongue of a bell) · ru трещо́тка (rattle) · gl badalo (the tongue of a bell) · grc κρέμβαλα (rattle) · sdn battaddólu (the tongue of a bell) · es badajo (the tongue of a bell) · vec batibèƚo (the tongue of a bell) · nl klapper (rattle) · ro limbă (the tongue of a bell) · ca batall (the tongue of a bell) · br bazhoulenn (the tongue of a bell) · hy զանգալեզվակ (the tongue of a bell) · sc entazu (the tongue of a bell) · sc antarzu (the tongue of a bell) · sv kläpp (the tongue of a bell) · sc limbèddu (the tongue of a bell) · nl bengel (the tongue of a bell) · fur batocj (the tongue of a bell) · bg ези́к (the tongue of a bell) · de Klöppel (the tongue of a bell) · bg кречетало (rattle) · nl ratel (rattle) · sc batàgliu (the tongue of a bell) · pt badalo (the tongue of a bell) · fur banducel (the tongue of a bell) · hu szélkelep (rattle) · ga teanga cloig (the tongue of a bell) · fr battant (the tongue of a bell) · mi ngutu rakiraki (rattle) · pl serce (the tongue of a bell) · sc batarzu (the tongue of a bell) · it battaglio (the tongue of a bell) · sc tratallu (the tongue of a bell)

clapper en · VERB · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈklæpɚ/ (General-American)

Etymology

Etymology tree English clap Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English clapper From clap + -er.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To ring a bell by pulling a rope attached to the clapper.
    • It is still necessary to warn clergymen against allowing the lazy and pernicious practice of 'clappering,' i.e. tying the bell-rope to the clapper, and pulling it instead of the bell. 1903, Baron Edmund Beckett Grimthorpe, A rudimentary treatise on clocks and watches and bells:
  2. To make a repetitive clapping sound; to clatter.
  3. Of birds, to make such a noise by repeatedly striking the mandibles together.
    • [W]hile he was away Hinzelmann began suddenly to clapper in the ladies' chamber like a stork, and then said, "Maid Anne, you much go look for your things to-day in the mill-stream." 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume II, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 53:

Forms

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clappered Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
clappered Tense=Past lexicographic
clappers Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
clappering Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Deriveds

clapperdudgeon

clapper en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈklæpɚ/ (General-American)

Etymology

Borrowed from French clapier.

Meanings

  1. (obsolete) A rabbit burrow.
    • Poore cunnie so bagged, Is soone overlagged Plash burrow, set clapper, For dog is a snapper 1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: […] Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […], 1810, →OCLC:

Forms

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clappers Number=Plur lexicographic

Relateds

clapper bridge