Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to wapper
Participle: wappered
Gerund: wappering
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | wapper |
| you | wapper |
| he;she;it | wappers |
| we | wapper |
| you | wapper |
| they | wapper |
Perfect
| I | have wappered |
| you | have wappered |
| he;she;it | has wappered |
| we | have wappered |
| you | have wappered |
| they | have wappered |
Past
| I | wappered |
| you | wappered |
| he;she;it | wappered |
| we | wappered |
| you | wappered |
| they | wappered |
Pluperfect
| I | had wappered |
| you | had wappered |
| he;she;it | had wappered |
| we | had wappered |
| you | had wappered |
| they | had wappered |
Future
| I | will wapper |
| you | will wapper |
| he;she;it | will wapper |
| we | will wapper |
| you | will wapper |
| they | will wapper |
Future Perfect
| I | will have wappered |
| you | will have wappered |
| he;she;it | will have wappered |
| we | will have wappered |
| you | will have wappered |
| they | will have wappered |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | wapper |
| you | wapper |
| he;she;it | wapper |
| we | wapper |
| you | wapper |
| they | wapper |
Perfect
| I | have wappered |
| you | have wappered |
| he;she;it | have wappered |
| we | have wappered |
| you | have wappered |
| they | have wappered |
Imperfect
| I | wappered |
| you | wappered |
| he;she;it | wappered |
| we | wappered |
| you | wappered |
| they | wappered |
Pluperfect
| I | had wappered |
| you | had wappered |
| he;she;it | had wappered |
| we | had wappered |
| you | had wappered |
| they | had wappered |
Conditional
Present
| I | would wapper |
| you | would wapper |
| he;she;it | would wapper |
| we | would wapper |
| you | would wapper |
| they | would wapper |
Perfect
| I | would have wappered |
| you | would have wappered |
| he;she;it | would have wappered |
| we | would have wappered |
| you | would have wappered |
| they | would have wappered |
Imperative
| you | wapper |
| we | Let's wapper |
| you | wapper |
Verbs conjugated like 'wapper'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'wapper'
lapper,
appear,
appel,
caper,
clapper,
copper,
hamper,
happen,
kipper,
lappet,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Frequentative of wap; compare German dialect wappern, wippern (“to move up and down, to rock”).
Sample Sentences
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this is it, That makes the wapper'd widow wed again; [1623, William Shakespeare, The Life of Tymon of Athens:]
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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; […]" [1876, Adeline Dutton Train Whitney, Sights and Insights: Patience Strong's Story of Over the Way, page 318:]
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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." [1899, Joseph Arthur Gibbs, A Cotswold Village, page 258:]
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They monks be weedy batch! Make un wappered and whelmed! Make un moil! ' [1962, Prudence Andrew, A Question of Choice, page 20:]
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At first he felt somewhat wappered. [1967, Ivor John Carnegie Brown, A Ring of Words, page 97:]
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"I be wappered," Catherine declared as she flung herself down upon the bed and assumed a pose that denoted complete exhaustion. [2010, Kathy Lynn Emerson, Face Down upon an Herbal:]
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When I asked him how he was he confessed to being wappered, which he explained meant tired, fatigued, or, as we might say, knackered. [2011, Diarmaid Ó Muirithe, Words We Don't Use (Much Anymore):]
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But still he stode, his face to set awrye, And wappering turnid vp his white of eye. [1610, John Higgins, The Mirour for Magistrates:]
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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; [1634, Mateo Alemán, The Rogve: Or, The Life of Gvzman de Alfarache:]
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Miss Mansfield abandons her salt furrow and in two stanzas lies flapping and wappering. [1912 March 28, “Present-Day Criticism”, in The New Age, volume 10, number 22, page 519:]
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She was wappering and seemed shot. [1930, The Cornhill Magazine, page 638:]
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his blue and white dotted tarentaal scarf wappering in the wind. [2003, Patrick Mynhardt, Boy from Bethulie: An Autobiography, page 122:]