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6 letters · 8 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun someone who bounds or leaps (as in competition)
originFrom Middle English lepere, lepare, from Old English hlēapere (“runner, leaper, dancer, courier, vagrant”), equivalent to leap + -er. Compare Saterland Frisian Lööper (“runner”), West Frisian ljepper (“leaper”), West Frisian loper (“runner”), Dutch loper (“runner”), German Läufer (“runner”), Swedish löpare (“runner”), Icelandic hlaupari (“runner”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0