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▪ I. slapper1|ˈslæpə(r)|
[f. slap v.1 + -er.]
1. dial. A large thing or object; a big, strapping, or overgrown person.
1781–in northern dial. glossaries. 1825Jamieson Suppl., Slapper, any large object; as a big salmon, Roxb. 1854A. E. Baker Northampt. Gloss., Slapper,..applied to persons and things, but most frequently to over-grown females. Ibid., ‘She's a slapper.’
2. a. One who slaps; spec. in Pottery.
1860Tomlinson Arts & Manuf. Ser. ii. Pottery 32 The workman called the slapper takes a mass of the paste, weighing from sixty to seventy pounds, and dashes it down on a bench before him. 1880C. M. Mason Forty Shires 159 When the clay is to be used, the slapper does his work.
b. In jazz, one who plays the double-bass (see slap v.1 1 d).
1934S. R. Nelson All about Jazz vi. 126 So a race of pickers and slappers..sprang into being. 1936Swing Music Mar. 9/2 Steve Brown, that tremendous string⁓bass slapper.
3. An implement used for slapping with.
a1886H. S. Brown Autobiog. (1887) iv. 18 Mr. Stowell had on his desk a broad wooden slapper, to be smitten with which we were commanded to hold out our hands.
▸ Brit. slang (derogatory). A promiscuous woman. Freq. in old slapper.
See quot. 1990 for a postulated connection with Yiddish schlepper ‘unkempt, scruffy person; gossipy, dowdy woman’; however there is some gap in sense. Cf. also quot. 1854 1.
1988Guardian 7 Sept. 16/5 She is called a silly slapper, a trout and a fat old truffle. 1990T. Thorne Bloomsbury Dict. Contemp. Slang 468/1 Slapper in British, a prostitute or slut. This working class term from East London and Essex is probably a corruption of shlepper or schlepper, a word of Yiddish origin, one of whose meanings is a slovenly or immoral woman. 1995Observer 19 Mar. (Life Suppl.) 34/1 She was on Clive Anderson wearing a very short skirt. If I'd have done that, everyone would have said: ‘Oh, look at that old slapper!’ 2001C. Glazebrook Madolescents 22 The Tarts' Department.., Aladdin's Cave of robbable cosmetics, which..I've decided to boycott until they've fired all those orange-faced slappers and had a complete staff turnaround.
▪ II. ˈslapper2 rare—0.
[f. slap v.3]
(See quot.)
1611Cotgr., Licheur, a licker, lapper, or slapper vp of. |