gaper

English

Serranus cabrilla

Wikispecies

Etymology

From Middle English gaper, equivalent to gape +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -eɪpə(ɹ)

Noun

gaper (plural gapers)

1. One who gapes; a starer.
2. Any of several species of burrowing clams.
3. A comber, a fish of the species Serranus cabrilla.
4. A fish of species Champsodon capensis
5. (US, slang) An inexperienced skier.
   • 2017, Brendan Leonard, The Great Outdoors: Everything You Need to Know Before Heading Into the Wild, page 295:

     If you want to avoid looking like a gaper, just keep yourself from looking sloppy and you should be okay.

Synonyms

• (fish): comber

Hyponyms

• (burrowing clams): king clam

Derived terms

terms derived from gaper

• blue-billed gaper
• blunt gaper
• fat gaper
• gaper clam
• gaper pea crab
• gaper snake-eel
• gapers' block
• gapeworm (Syngamus trachea)
• little gaper
• Pacific gaper
• redeye gaper
• sand gaper
• sickle-billed gaper

Translations

Serranus cabrilla

• Catalan: serrà (ca) m
• Galician: cabra (gl) f

Anagrams

• grape, pager, parge

Dutch

Gaper.

Etymology

From Middle Dutch gapere. Equivalent to gapen +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɣaː.pər/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: ga‧per
• Rhymes: -aːpər

Noun

gaper m (plural gapers, diminutive gapertje n)

1. A yawner, one who yawns.
2. A figurehead with an open mouth used as the shop sign of a pharmacy.

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

gaper

1. present of gape