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caperer

/ˈkeɪpəɹə(ɹ)/

caperer noun: one who capers, leaps, and skips about, or dances.

Noun

caperer (plural caperers)

  1. One who capers, leaps, and skips about, or dances.
    • The nimble caperer on the cord.1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Fourteenth Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […]...
  2. A caddis fly larva.
    • The fairies had washed him, you see, in the swift river, so thoroughly, that not only his dirt, but his whole husk and shell had been washed quite off him, and the pretty little real Tom was washed out of the inside of it, and swam away, as a caddis does when its case of stones and silk is bored...1863, Charles Kingsley, The Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby
    • […] caddis insects, the tribe to which the caperer belongs, may be said to do either the one or the other.1925, Horatio Gordon Hutchinson, A Fellowship of Anglers, page 93

Forms of caperer

pluralcaperers

Origin of caperer

From caper + -er.

Questions about caperer

What does caperer mean?
Caperer means one who capers, leaps, and skips about, or dances.
What part of speech is caperer?
Caperer is a noun.
How do you pronounce caperer?
Caperer is pronounced /ˈkeɪpəɹə(ɹ)/.
What is the plural of caperer?
The plural of caperer is caperers.

Words near caperer in the dictionary

  1. capercailzie
  2. capercailzies
  3. capercallies
  4. capercally
  5. capered
  6. caperer
  7. caperers
  8. capering
  9. caperingly
  10. caperings
  11. caperless

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