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plural carp or carps
Any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae, especially the common carp, Cyprinus carpio. examples
third-person singular simple present carps, present participle carping, simple past and past participle carped
To complain about a fault; to harp on. examples
(obsolete) To say; to tell.
(obsolete, transitive) To find fault with; to censure. quotations
and with your good countenance protect against the malice of evil mouths, which are always wide open to carp at and misconstrue my simple meaning
27 December 1591, Edmund Spenser, letter to Sir Walter Raleigh
My honest homely Words were carp'd, and censur'd
1690, [John] Dryden, Don Sebastian, King of Portugal: […], London: […] Jo. Hindmarsh, […], (please specify the page number)