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/kɑːp/, U.S. /kɑrp/ 1. A freshwater fish, Cyprinus carpio, the type of the family Cyprinidæ; introduced into England as early as the 14th cent., and commonly bred in ponds.
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Murray cod1843
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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > superorder Ostariophysi or order Cypriniformes > [noun] > suborder Cyprinoidei > family Cyprinidae (minnows and carps) > cyprinus carpio (carp)
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river carp1653
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koi1727
looking-glass carp1811
king carp1874
mirror carp1879
scale carp1884
mirror1986
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 62 Carpe, fysche, carpus.
1462 Mann. & Househ. Exp. 561 My master putte into the said ponde, in gret carpes, xxj.
1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft xiii. x. 305 A bone taken out of a carps head, stancheth bloud.
1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler i. ix The Carp is the Queen of Rivers: a stately, a good, and a very subtle fish.
1718 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. Sept. (1965) I. 438 In the fish ponds are kept tame Carp, said to be some of them 80 years of age.
1774 G. White Let. 2 Sept. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 103 In this water are many carps.
1854 C. D. Badham Prose Halieutics 257 That singular fleshy palate which is popularly but incorrectly known all over the world as carp's tongue.
1867 F. Francis Bk. Angling iii. 68 In rivers the carp bites more boldly than..in ponds.
2. Applied to other species of the genus Cyprinus, or family Cyprinidæ, to which belong the Gold and Silver Fish, the Prussian or Crucian Carp ( C. gibelio), the Norwegian Carp ( Scarpæna norvegica), and others.
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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > superorder Ostariophysi or order Cypriniformes > [noun] > suborder Cyprinoidei > family Cyprinidae (minnows and carps) > unspecified and miscellaneous types
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gilt char1673
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carp1789
kurper1831
Prussian carp1836
grass carp1885
saddle carp1888
zebrafish1914
1789 G. White Let. in Nat. Hist. Selborne 271 Gold and silver fishes..Linnæus ranks..under the genus of cyprinus, or carp.
1847 W. B. Carpenter Zool.: Systematic Acct. II. §567 The Cyprinidæ or Carp tribe.
1883 Official Catal. Internat. Fisheries Exhib. (ed. 4) 107 Collection of Stuffed..Carp, Crucian Carp, Gold Carp.
Compounds
carp-louse n. a name for various small crustaceans of the sub-order Branchiura or family Argulidae, parasitic on fishes; cf. fish-louse n. at fish n.1 Compounds 2b.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Entomostraca > order Copepoda > suborder Branchiura > member of family Argulidae
carp-louse1889
1678–1706 E. Phillips New World of Words Carp-stone, a triangular stone found in the chop of a carp, white without and yellow within.
1889 in Cent. Dict.
1909 J. J. Lister in A. Sedgwick Textbk. Zool. III. 410 Carp-lice. Copepods with large compound eyes.
1931 J. R. Norman Hist. Fishes xx. 417 Mention may also be made of the so-called Carp Louse (Argulus), another Crustacean parasite.
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c. Carping speech, cavil (with play on carp n.1).
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > criticism > [noun] > captious > instance of
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c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 1327 Þat he ful clanly bi-cuv-er his carp bi þe laste.
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 23 Kryst kydde hit hymself in a carp onez.
c1400 (?c1380) Pearl l. 882 In sounande notez a gentyl carpe.
1618 G. Mynshul Ess. Prison 1st Ep. Ded. i Carpes haue bin good cheap this Lent, for I haue had more than I desired for nothing.
1904 Westm. Gaz. 9 May 4/1 Criticism—what a lady I know calls ‘the carpers carping with their carps’.
1922 F. S. Fitzgerald Let. Jan. (1964) 331 But one more carp before I close.
1967 Observer 24 Oct. 25/2 I have one carp, however. His own performance..tends to become confusing.
d. Associated with cark v.1
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1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Mark viii. f. 57 Their vayne and superfluous carpe and care.
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/kɑːp/, U.S. /kɑrp/ a. intransitive. To speak, talk. Obsolete.
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the mind > language > speech > speak [verb (intransitive)]
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a1240 Wohunge in Cott. Hom. 287 Carpe toward ihesu and seie þise wordes.
a1400 Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 990/388* Als þai come narre þe castelle, to-geder carpand.
1420 Siege Rouen 1235 in Archæol. XXII. 381 Vnnethe thay myȝt brethe or carpe.
1470 J. Hardyng Chron. Proem. x Leonell..that wedded..The erles daughter of Vister, as man do Karpe.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 829 The Kyng þan full curtesly karpes agayne.
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Ciiv/2 To Carpe, talke, colloqui, confabulari.
1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie Epil. sig. A.iiij To carpe it fine with those that haue no guile.
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the mind > language > speech > speech-making > make a speech [verb (intransitive)] > discourse or lecture
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a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 217 Þe kowherdes bestes i carped of bi-fore.
1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xxii. 199 Thus conscience of crist and of þe croys carpede.
c1425 Wyntoun Cron. iii. Prol. 26 (Jam.) Of thame..Carpe we bot lityl.
a1605 A. Montgomerie Flyting with Polwart 575 Of his conditions to carp for a while.
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the mind > language > speech > speak, say, or utter [verb (transitive)]
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a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 503 To karp þe soþe.
1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 325 To carpe Proverbes and demaundes sligh.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 4610 When Calcas his counsell had carpit to the end.
?c1600 (c1515) Sc. Field (Lyme) 75 in I. F. Baird Poems Stanley Family (D.Phil. thesis, Univ. of Birm.) (1990) 232 Our King, full of couradge, carped theis wordes.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > sing [verb (intransitive)]
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c1425 Thomas of Erceld. 313 ‘To harpe or carpe, whare~so þou gose, Thomas, þou sall hafe þe chose sothely’: And he saide ‘harpynge kepe I none, For tonge es chefe of mynstralsye’.
?1521 A. Barclay Bk. Codrus & Mynalcas sig. Avj In goodly dytie, or balade for to carpe.
a1528 J. Skelton Agaynste Comely Coystrowne 13 In his gamut carp he can.
?1577 F. T. Debate Pride & Lowlines sig. Av Many was the bird did sweetly carpe, Emong the thornes.
1802 in W. Scott Minstrelsy Sc. Border I. 67 Then aye he harped, and aye he carped, Till a' the Lordlings footed the floor.
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the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > be talkative [verb (intransitive)] > talk excessively or chatter
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to twat on1996
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. x. 69 Clerkes..carpen of god faste, and haue [him] moche in þe mouthe.
a1529 J. Skelton Colyn Cloute (?1545) sig. B.vi Some..Clatter and carpe Of that heresy.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 476/1 I carpe (Lydgate), Je carquette..This is a farre northen verbe.
1557 Earl of Surrey et al. Songes & Sonettes sig. Aa.iiiiv Came curiousnesse and carped out of frame.
5.
a. spec. To talk querulously, censoriously, or captiously; to find fault, cavil. (The current sense.)Certain examples of this before the 16th cent. are wanting: the early ones may have merely the sense of 1 with contextual colouring. Cf. carper n.1
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > criticism > criticize [verb (intransitive)] > captiously
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to pick on ——1864
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1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. x. 286 Abasshed To blame yow or to greve, And carpen noght as they carpe now, Ne calle yow dumbe houndes.
1401 in T. Wright Polit. Poems & Songs (1859) II. 77 Thou carpist also of oure coveitise, and sparist the sothe.
c1530 A. Barclay Egloges i. sig. A Some in satyers, agayne vyces dar carpe.]
1548 Soul John-Nobody in J. Strype Cranmer (1694) App. 139 They will currishly carp.
1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. (1634) i. xiii. 49 Servetto carpeth, that God did beare the person of an Angell.
a1639 D. Digges Compl. Ambassador (1655) 377 The King..carpeth upon the marriage.
a1677 I. Barrow Several Serm. Evil-speaking (1678) v. 184 In carping and harshly censuring, in defaming and abusing their Neighbours.
1786 R. Burns Poems 204 Ne'er grudge an' carp, Tho' Fortune use you hard an' sharp.
1863 C. C. Clarke Shakespeare-characters xv. 386 The bulk of society did not assemble to carp and to cavil.
1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. at Kerping What's the good o' keeping on kerpin about it?
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > criticism > criticize [verb (transitive)] > captiously
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to pick at ——1603
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to get at ——1803
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to pick up1846
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to pick nits1978
1587 F. Thynne Ann. Scotl. Pref. 405 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II Curiouslie carping at my barrennes in writing.
1794 E. Burke Corr. IV. 235 That faction and malice may not be able to carp at it.
1879 M. Arnold Falkland in Mixed Ess. 207 We will not carp at this great writer.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > criticism > criticize [verb (transitive)] > captiously
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1550 T. Cranmer Def. Sacrament f. 100 Whiche my saiyng diuers ignorant persones..dyd carpe and reprehende.
1582 in Bible (Rheims) Luke vii. (margin) The Pharisees did alwaies carpe Christ.
1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Annales v. ii. 117 Couertly carping the Consull Fufius.
1605 W. Camden Remaines i. 177 Carping whatsoever hath beene done or saide heeretofore.
1678 R. Barclay Apol. True Christian Divinity iii. §vii. 87 Our Adversaries shall have nothing from thence to carp.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > dispraise or discommendation > dispraise or discommend [verb (transitive)] > censure or condemn
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1591 Troublesome Raigne Iohn i. sig. B4 Any one that knoweth how to carpe, Will scarcely iudge vs both one Countrey borne.
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1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) I. 606 With brandis bricht that scherand wer and scharp So cruellie togidder did tha carp.
9. Associated with cark v.1
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > exert oneself or make an effort [verb (intransitive)] > toil
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1522 Worlde & Chylde (de Worde) (1909) sig. C.iiii Euer he is carpynge of care.
c1560 Hunting of Cheviot 58 in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1889) III. vi. 310 Tivydale may carpe off care.
1670 G. Havers tr. G. Leti Il Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa i. ii. 49 Poor drudgeing..Priests that carp and moyl all day long.
1702 Eng. Theophrastus 312 Carping for the unprofitable goods of this world.
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(See quot. 1835 for carper n. at Derivatives).
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carper n.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > [noun] > combing > one who prepares equipment
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1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. 202 The business to which children are first put in this business is carping; that is, preparing thistle-teasels for the workman, who fits them into the rods and handles for dressing the cloth. The little carpers sit at this easy work.
carping n.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > treating or processing textile fabric > [noun] > putting nap on > teazle > preparing
carping1835
1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. 202 The business to which children are first put in this business is carping; that is, preparing thistle-teasels for the workman, who fits them into the rods and handles for dressing the cloth. The little carpers sit at this easy work.
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