weeper
/ˈwiːpə
/noun
1A person who weeps.I'm not a weeper, generally speaking, but yesterday I wept freely....
- President George W Bush, his brothers and their father are big weepers, according to the American writer Kitty Kelley.
- For all the crushed weepers, there are those who take it on the chin.
1.1 historical A hired mourner at a funeral.
1.2A small image of a mourner on a monument.He invented a particular tomb format whereby the deceased was guaranteed eternal mourning by the sculpted weepers that surrounded the sarcophagus....
- He not show flashings and weepers in his drawings.
2North American another term for weepy.I draw the line at sappy actionless weepers, though....
- The earnest weeper E.T. became the highest-grossing film of all time.
- The two real weepers that stand out for me are White Palace with Susan Sarandon, and Ghost.
3 (weepers) historical Mourning clothes, in particular a man’s crape hatband or a widow’s black crape veil and white cuffs.
4 (weepers) dated Long side whiskers worn without a beard.
