What's the difference between flapper and lapper?

Flapper


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, flaps.
  • (n.) See Flipper.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We’re back to those flappers, with their jobs and their knee-length skirts and their dangerous opinions about politics, or the girls of the 1960s destroying the traditional family by wantonly taking the pill.
  • (2) Marion Cotillard looks amazing in her selection of cocktail shift dresses in Woody Allen's time-travel comedy Midnight in Paris , while Bérénice Bejo, enchants in cloche hats and flapper dresses in silent-era pastiche The Artist .
  • (3) October 3, 2012 1.29am BST "If Mitt Romney doesn't take it to the president tonight, I think the Obama machine will win," says Fox News's resident jaw-flapper, Bill O'Reilly .
  • (4) Guests will also have the opportunity to bid on a trip to Malawi with Madonna , a portrait session with photography duo Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, and the star’s Swarovski crystal encrusted flapper dress, as worn on her Rebel Heart tour.
  • (5) Without a doubt, some of the fashions, such as the flapper "garçonne" ("little boy") look, evoked an emancipation of the traditional feminine codes.
  • (6) The Melbourne Truth reported: “Empty glasses, half-dressed girls, and an atmosphere poisonous with cigarette smoke and fumes of liquor – and, lounging about the flat, six negroes.” In parliament, an MP read out headlines like “Nude girls in Melbourne flat orgy” and “Raid discloses wild scene of abandon: flappers, wine, cocaine and revels”.
  • (7) On the other hand, there were autonomous movements that ranged from back-to-nature groups, such as the German Wandervögel or the British Woodcraft Folk , to consumerist types, such as 1920s flappers or swing kids in the 1930s.
  • (8) Have innovations in technology done what protest songs, love-ins and flapper dresses were unable to do?
  • (9) Apart from that, bring on series three and the Crawley girls in flapper dresses intoning: "Carson, fetch the cocaine!"

Lapper


Definition:

  • (n.) One who takes up food or liquid with his tongue.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The beta anomers have phosphorus coupled to C(3) with coupling constants of 10.8--11.7 Hz, approximately 2 Hz greater than the maximum reported for trans coupling (Lapper, R. D., & Smith, I. C. P. (1973) J.

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