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单词 plapper
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plapperv.

Brit. /ˈplapə/, U.S. /ˈplæpər/, Scottish English /ˈplapər/
Origin: An imitative or expressive formation.
Etymology: Imitative. Compare German plappern to babble (first half of the 16th cent.), (rare) to clatter (1645, now obsolete), and also (chiefly < German) Dutch plapperen to babble (first half of the 19th cent.), (rare, of water or of animals swimming in water) to splash, bubble (second half of the 19th cent.), Swedish plappra to babble (first half of the 19th cent.), Danish plapre to babble (first half of the 19th cent. or earlier), (rare) to clatter, splash (early 20th cent. or earlier). Compare earlier plap v., and also much earlier blabber v. and the Germanic parallels cited at that entry.
Chiefly Scottish. Now rare.
intransitive. To make a gentle repetitive slapping or plopping sound, as by moving the lips, splashing water, etc. Of a liquid: to make the sound of boiling or bubbling.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [verb (intransitive)] > make sound with lips
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1866 W. Gregor in Trans. Philol. Soc. 127 Plapper,..to make a noise with the lips.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xi. [Sirens] 251 She took no notice while he read by rote a solfa fable for her, plappering flatly.
1924 Scots Mag. Oct. 59 Speaking of a boiling pot, we may say its contents are ‘plapperin’, such as porridge, which throws up blabs or bubbles, which burst and emit steam.
1925 R. L. Cassie Gangrel Muse 35 She grows big an' strong an' free, While she plappers by the lea.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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