Wapper

Pronunciation varies by accent · verb

Meaning

(transitive, obsolete or dialect) To exhaust; to tire out..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive, obsolete or dialect) To exhaust; to tire out.
2. (intransitive) To move weakly or tremulously; to flag.
3. A mischievous sprite.

Example Sentences

this is it, That makes the wapper'd widow wed again;

Emery Ann declared to me, privately, after I had said in general council that I felt it impossible, that she was "really wappered out with mountains; […]"

Marry, 'tis nigh on forty mile, I warrant. Thou'll not see Stratford to-night, sir; thy horse is wappered out, and that I plainly see."

They monks be weedy batch! Make un wappered and whelmed! Make un moil! '

At first he felt somewhat wappered.

"I be wappered," Catherine declared as she flung herself down upon the bed and assumed a pose that denoted complete exhaustion.

When I asked him how he was he confessed to being wappered, which he explained meant tired, fatigued, or, as we might say, knackered.

But still he stode, his face to set awrye, And wappering turnid vp his white of eye.

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• wappers
• wappering
• wappered

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