What's the difference between flapper and slapper?

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!"

Slapper


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, slaps.
  • (n.) Anything monstrous; a whopper.
  • (a.) Alt. of Slapping

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Women are either shaggable or saintly (maternal, married to a male celebrity, silent), or desiccated harridans and shameless slappers.
  • (2) He called two female students “slappers” in public, expressed disbelief towards a disclosure of sexual assault (“girls these days, with their short skirts”) and routinely undermines his female colleagues with sexist and dismissive language in formal settings.
  • (3) They are a mark of the slut, the slapper, the loose woman.
  • (4) sketch , but what that knee-slapper lacks in laughs it makes up for in timeliness.
  • (5) "Do you think that I planned and plotted, or lost a wink of sleep, scheming to spend a considerable part of my life trying to identify hog-slappers, cheese-winders' clerks, or theatre fireman's night companions?"

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