plapper

To make a flapping noise with the lips.

Verb

  1. To make a flapping noise with the lips.
    • She took no notice while he read by rote a solfa fable for her, plappering flatly - 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
    • Adam was making a plappering noise in his sleep like a horse. - 2016, Stuart Walton, The First Day in Paradise:
    • But Marie's reaction when she saw Sam coming gave him pause. She immediately stepped away from Arik, combing her hair with her fingers nervously. She then gave him a smile to die for, threading her arm through his and...

Origin

Imitative.

Forms

plappers plappering plappered