What's the difference between lopper and sopper?

Lopper


Definition:

  • (n.) One who lops or cuts off.
  • (v. i.) To turn sour and coagulate from too long standing, as milk.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There was a while when the poppy-loppers almost seemed to be winning and Ross's career dipped.
  • (2) There are tools, lots of them, and big ones at that: saws, loppers, spades and diggers.

Sopper


Definition:

  • (n.) One who sops.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This case indicates sopper is nondialysable and that hemodialysis is ineffective in the treatment of acute copper sulphate poisoning.
  • (2) From the perspective of the clinical viewpoint of the meaning of left-handedness the most acceptable is the theory of Satz Orsini and Sopper from 1986 in which they consider that non-righthanded people present a heterogenous group with a few individual sub-types: pathological lefthanded persons; ambivalent persons, in other words, ambidexters and the group of lefthanded persons by nature.

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