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carper


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Definition:
a talkative whiner; one who carps

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 DAMIS
 What! Shall I let a bigot criticaster
 Come and usurp a tyrant's power here?
 And shall we never dare amuse ourselves
 Till this fine gentleman deigns to consent?
 DORINE
 If we must hark to him, and heed his maxims,
 There's not a thing we do but what's a crime;
 He censures everything, this zealous carper.

Moliere. Tartuffe
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—But Ann Hathaway? Mr Best's quiet voice said forgetfully. Yes, we seem to be forgetting her as Shakespeare himself forgot her.
His look went from brooder's beard to carper's skull, to remind, to chide them not unkindly, then to the baldpink lollard costard, guiltless though maligned.

James Joyce. Ulysses.
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