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rain napper

rain napper noun: an umbrella.

Noun

rain napper (plural rain nappers)

  1. (UK, obsolete, slang) An umbrella.
    • Within a few minutes, Mr. Fair, who was also the Sheriff, came into the building while closing his rain napper.2010, Ann DeWitt, Kevin M. Weeks, Entangled in Freedom: A Civil War Story, page 17
    • “Tonight I would trade every fancy racer for a hansom nag, or even for a rain napper.”2015, Laurie R. King, In the Company of Sherlock Holmes

Forms of rain napper

pluralrain nappers

Questions about rain napper

What does rain napper mean?
Rain napper means an umbrella.
What part of speech is rain napper?
Rain napper is a noun.
What is the plural of rain napper?
The plural of rain napper is rain nappers.

Words near rain napper in the dictionary

  1. rain lily
  2. rain man
  3. rain men
  4. rain moon
  5. rain moons
  6. rain napper
  7. rain nappers
  8. rain off
  9. rain on someone's parade
  10. rain or shine
  11. rain out

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