napper

Noun

1. A person who takes a nap.
2. The head.
   • You look so dapper from your napper to your feet. - 1911, Charles Collins, Fred E. Terry, E.A. Sheppard, “Any Old Iron”:
   • Under fire when this magazine is emptied you shout for “ammo” but perhaps No. 2, the ammo carrier, is lying in the rear with a bullet through his napper. - 1917, Arthur Guy Empey, “Lewis Gun”, in Over the Top, G. P....
   • As he walked back to his flat after meekly apologising, he wondered why a severe pain in his napper could affect the lead in his pencil. - 2011, Jeremy Roberts, Let's Not And Say We Did, page 96:

   Synonyms: bean beaner belfry block bonce brainbox brain bucket calabash dome head loaf lolly napper noodle noddle noggin nut sconce skull

3. A machine used to raise the nap on cloth.
4. A sheepstealer.

   Hypernyms: abactor duffer rustler