Verb
To exhaust; to tire out.
Usage- dialectal
- Obsolete
- Transitive
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this is it, That makes the wapper'd widow wed again;
Emery Ann declared to me, privately, after I had said in general council that I felt it impossible, that she was "really wappered out with mountains; […]"
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Marry, 'tis nigh on forty mile, I warrant. Thou'll not see Stratford to-night, sir; thy horse is wappered out, and that I plainly see."
They monks be weedy batch! Make un wappered and whelmed! Make un moil! '
At first he felt somewhat wappered.
"I be wappered," Catherine declared as she flung herself down upon the bed and assumed a pose that denoted complete exhaustion.
When I asked him how he was he confessed to being wappered, which he explained meant tired, fatigued, or, as we might say, knackered.
To move weakly or tremulously; to flag.
Usage- Intransitive
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But still he stode, his face to set awrye, And wappering turnid vp his white of eye.
She was toothlesse, chap-falne, hollow-eyed, and wappering withall, her haire sluttishly hanging about her eares, unkempt, and as greazie as it was knotty;
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Miss Mansfield abandons her salt furrow and in two stanzas lies flapping and wappering.
She was wappering and seemed shot.
his blue and white dotted tarentaal scarf wappering in the wind.
Noun
A mischievous sprite.
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"And a wapper, too; when I first saw it I thought it was a rabbit, and now it's bigger than a deer, and still a mile or two off," said Joe.
The Wapper had, just for the fun of it, put an iron pot under the hat.
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Presently the good woman discovered to her horror that the foundling was swelling and becoming heavy, and when she put it down the Wapper assumed his own shape and ran off shrieking.