English

Noun

carper ‎(plural carpers)

1. A person who habitually carps, who talks too much and regularly finds fault.
   • c. 1607, William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, Act IV, Scene 3,

     Shame not these woods, / By putting on the cunning of a carper.

   • 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress, The Author’s Apology for his Book,

     Come, let my carper to his life now look,

     And find there darker lines than in my book

     He findeth any […]

   • 1908, Molière, Tartuffe (1664), translated by Curtis Hidden Page, Act I, Scene I,

     He censures everything, this zealous carper.

   • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, Bloomsbury, 2005, Chapter 11 (iii),

     […] Lady Tipper […] shook her head in wounded defiance of all the carpers and whiners.

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:complainer