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What do you call it?

Eleven Benevolent Elephants · 2020-09-16 20:32:08

The thing you sharpen a pencil with.

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#62 17-09-2020 11:50AM

freshpopcorn

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Sharpener
Certainly a topper with us.
If we ever had a teacher that started on about a pencil sharpener. You’d know she was from a city or she had notions about herself.
We had one teacher who use always start talking about here sharpener/eraser but she also called play school Kindergarten.

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#63 17-09-2020 11:51AM

CrabRevolution

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Topper
Was always a pencil parer for me growing up in Meath. Didn't hear the term "topper" till someone from Cork used it in college.

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#64 17-09-2020 11:57AM

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Topper
It's a parer but you're not meant to ever actually see the word written down.

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#65 17-09-2020 11:58AM

ILoveYourVibes

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At first parer

Then sacapuntas ..or puntas

Then sharpener .....

Never heard topper until now.

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#66 17-09-2020 01:13PM

Hamsterchops

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Something else?
When I was at school the Topper was a comic.

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