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lappering

lappering is the present participle and gerund of lapper.

Meaning of lapper

Verb

lapper (third-person singular simple present lappers, present participle lappering, simple past and past participle lappered)

  1. To make a gentle splashing sound, as the sound of flowing water.
    • There was mockery of our foolhardy enterprise in the soft whispering sough of the water, as I heard it lapper beneath the ferry-boat that lay ready to cross to the other side.1900?, S.R. Crockett, chapter XXXVII, in The Red Axe, →ISBN, page 238

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Questions about lappering

What is lappering the present participle and gerund of?
Lappering is the present participle and gerund of lapper.

Words near lappering in the dictionary

  1. lappel
  2. lappels
  3. lapper
  4. lapper-milk
  5. lappered
  6. lappering
  7. lappers
  8. lappet
  9. lappet moth
  10. lappet moths
  11. lappet-faced vulture

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lappering (page history and authors); lapper (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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