[f. LAP v.1 + -ER1.] One who laps, or takes up (liquid) with the tongue.
1606. J. Carpenter, Solomon’s Solace, vii. 28. Those doggish lappers, and those faint hearted dastardes.
1826. Kirby & Sp., Entomol., III. 418. The great majority of the Hymenoptera order … though furnished with mandibles and maxillæ, never use them for mastication, but really lap their food with their tongue: these therefore might be denominated lappers.
1827. Blackw. Mag., XXII. 470. The pupils of the modern school discover in him but the crafty, cruel, and cowardly lapper of blood.
