Meaning

4 senses

  1. A person who takes a nap.

  2. (slang)The head.

  3. (obsolete)A machine used to raise the nap on cloth.

  4. (obsolete)A sheepstealer.

Origin

From nap + -er.

From nap + -er.

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Forms

plural: nappers
Singularnapper
Pluralnappers

regular

Synonyms

18 synonyms
beanA1blockA1headA1loafB1nutB2belfryboncebrainboxbrain bucketcalabashdomelollynoodlenoddle

Word family

3 related words
Derivedcatnappergene-napperrain napper

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
napenapkinA2napoleonnappynarc

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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