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Definition: Tapster |
TapsterNoun1. A tavern keeper who taps kegs or casks. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tapster" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1594. (references) |
Note: Tapster \Tap"ster\, noun. [from Anglo-Saxon expression t[ae]ppestre female tapster. See Tap plug, pipe, and -ster.]. (references) |
Synonym: TapsterSynonym: tapper (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Tapster |
| English words defined with "tapster": Lick-spigot ♦ Skinker ♦ Tappester ♦ Undertapster. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "tapster": Admiral of the Blue, Ale-draper. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "tapster": Tappester. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Tapster" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tapster" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "tapster"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shitës pjiesh, barist (bartender, publican, saloonkeeper). (various references) | |
Arabic | نديم, الساقي بالحانة. (various references) | |
Czech | výèepník (pot-boy). (various references) | |
French | échanson. (various references) | |
Greek | κάπελασ, μπάρμαν (barman, bartender, patron), τραβών ποτά εκ βαρέλλιων. (various references) | |
Hungarian | csaposlegény (potman). (various references) | |
Manx | guilley lhionney (barman). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | apstertay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | empregado de bar (bartender). (various references) | |
Romanian | chelneriţã (barmaid, waitress), chelner (barman, steward, waiter), barman (barkeeper, barman, bartender, counterman). (various references) | |
Russian | буфетчик (barman, bartender, drawer, pantryman). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | točilac. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | nhân viên phục vụ ở cửa h ng giải khát. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Anglo-French | 1100-1600 | abrokur. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tapster": tapsters. (additional references) | |
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"Tapster" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: alpestre, japester, tasper, Tilseter, topster. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "tapster" (pronounced 'Tap"ster'): Backster, Bemonster, Chepster, Chidester, Dabster, Deemster, Fibster, Gamester, hamster, holster, Lewdster, maltster, minster, Oldster, Palster, Pinkster, Punster, rhymester, roadster, seamster, Sempster, Semster, Sewster, Shepster, shyster, Singster, songster, spinster, teamster, throwster, tipster, trickster, Ulster, Undertapster, Webster, Whipster, Whitester, Whitster, Youngster. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: patters, spatter. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-p-r-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: aptest, paster, paters, patter, prates, repast, stater, tapers, taster, taters, tetras, trapes, treats. | |
-2 letters: apers, apres, apter, asper, aster, pares, parse, parts, paste, pater, pates, pears, peart, peats, prase, prate, prats, presa, prest, rapes, rates, reaps, septa, spare, spate, spear, sprat, stare, start, state, strap, strep, taper, tapes, tares, tarps, tarts, taste. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-p-r-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: partlets, patterns, peartest, platters, prattles, pretaste, prostate, spatters, splatter, sprattle, tapestry, tapsters, transept, trapnest, upstater. | |
+2 letters: abruptest, aspartate, attempers, bespatter, operettas, paltriest, pastorate, patentors, patterers, poetaster, prattlers, pretasted, pretastes, pretreats, privatest, prostates, prostrate, saltpeter, spattered, spectator, splatters, sprattled, sprattles, tetrapods, therapist, transepts, trapezist, trapnests, triptanes, upstarted, upstaters. | |
+3 letters: apartments, aspartates, baptistery, bespatters, crepitates, deathtraps, extirpates, impetrates, pacesetter, pastorates, pediatrist, penetrants, penetrates, poetasters, postarrest, postmaster, pretasting, prostrated, prostrates, protestant, protonates, reattempts, repatterns, saltpeters, separatist, spattering, spectators, splattered, stepfather, stepparent, strathspey, streetlamp, striptease, superstate, taperstick, tapestried, tapestries, tetraspore, therapists, transeptal, trapezists, trapnested, tropotaxes, vaporettos, waterspout. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Usage Frequency 7. Translations: Modern 8. Translations: Ancient | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Bibliography |
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