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03-15-2015, 01:40 PM
\ kahrp \ , verb, noun;
1.
To find fault or complain querulously or unreasonably.
noun: 1.
A peevish complaint.
Quotes:
She'd been carping about money lately – or not carping , but she'd inserted a few pointed remarks about pulling your own weight into the prolonged and intent silences that were her specialty – so he thought she'd be pleased.
-- Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake
And knowing he could not touch her by persuasion, he carped at her and teased her like a schoolboy.
-- Anton Chekhov, "Excellent People," Chekhov's Doctors: A Collection of Chekhov's Medical Tales
Origin:
Carp comes from the Old Norse word karpa which meant "to brag or haggle."
1.
To find fault or complain querulously or unreasonably.
noun: 1.
A peevish complaint.
Quotes:
She'd been carping about money lately – or not carping , but she'd inserted a few pointed remarks about pulling your own weight into the prolonged and intent silences that were her specialty – so he thought she'd be pleased.
-- Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake
And knowing he could not touch her by persuasion, he carped at her and teased her like a schoolboy.
-- Anton Chekhov, "Excellent People," Chekhov's Doctors: A Collection of Chekhov's Medical Tales
Origin:
Carp comes from the Old Norse word karpa which meant "to brag or haggle."