carp

verbnag

Synonyms for carp

verb nag

Antonyms for carp

Word Origin & History

type of freshwater fish, late 14c., from Old French carpe "carp" (13c.) and directly from Vulgar Latin carpa (source also of Italian carpa, Spanish carpa), from a Germanic source (cf. Middle Dutch carpe, Dutch karper, Old High German karpfo, German Karpfen "carp"); possibly the immediate source is Gothic *karpa. A Danube fish (hence the proposed East Germanic origin of its name), introduced in English ponds 14c. Lithuanian karpis, Russian karp are Germanic loan words.

Example Sentences for carp

Split the carp if large; cut it in large pieces, and salt it.

When of a good size, as in Holland, they are a remarkably fine fresh-water fish, though not so delicate as carp or tench.

Had he learned to carp at the rich, and to make honesty the excuse for all penury?

I was making a sketch of beeches and to pass the time she fed the carp.

I told him I was going away; I had fed the carp for the last time.

The rigorous metaphysician will please not begin to carp at our definition.

But what if they carp at that which in close-shut mind they long for?

Again the line tightened and again the carp turned to the shore.

Carp is the chief stock; but tench and perch, eels and pike are raised.

She is gaping after love like a carp after water on a kitchen-table.

carp

Synonyms for carp

Antonyms for carp

bitches

bitching

cavil

cavilling

complain

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Antonyms for carp

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bitches

bitching

cavil

cavilling

complain

Synonyms for carp

bitch