Dictionary Definition
carper n : someone who constantly criticizes in a
petty way [syn: niggler]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
- From carp#Verb + -er#Etmyology 1
Pronunciation
- a UK /kɑː(r)pə(r)/
Noun
- a person who habitually carps, who talks too much and regularly finds fault
Quotations
- 1605–1608: By putting on the cunning of a carper — William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, 1605–1608
- 1678: Come, let my carper to his life now look, / And find there darker lines than in my book — John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress, 1678
- 1909–1914:He censures everything, this zealous carper. — Curtis Hidden Page's translation of Tartuffe or the Hypocrite by Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere, 1909–1914