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What do you call it?

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16-09-2020 09:32PM

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Eleven Benevolent Elephants

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The thing you sharpen a pencil with.

What do you call it? 177 votes

Parer

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Topper

49%

88 votes

Sharpener

28%

51 votes

Something else?

21%

38 votes

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#2 16-09-2020 09:32PM
Rodney Bathgate

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Eraser?

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#3 16-09-2020 09:33PM
nthclare

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Something else?

Rodney Bathgate wrote: »

Eraser?

Arazor

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#4 16-09-2020 09:34PM
Gregor Samsa

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Topper
Parer. Or if I’m feeling posh, a sharpener.

Married a culchie, though, and she and the kids call it a topper. I just can’t.

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#5 16-09-2020 09:34PM
Eleven Benevolent Elephants

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Topper

Rodney Bathgate wrote: »

Eraser?

You mean rubber.

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#6 16-09-2020 09:34PM
Smee_Again

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A parer.

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#7 16-09-2020 09:35PM
Vowel Movement

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pointer

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#8 16-09-2020 09:35PM
Rodney Bathgate

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Eleven Benevolent Elephants wrote: »

You mean rubber.

No, I mean penknife.

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#9 16-09-2020 09:36PM
893bet

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Sharpener
Topper

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#10 16-09-2020 09:37PM
TheMilkyPirate

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Sharpener
A topper

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#11 16-09-2020 09:38PM
Mehaffey1

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Something else?
Sharpener here from 'The North'

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#12 16-09-2020 09:39PM
Rodney Bathgate

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The OP has no lead in his pencil. (Yes, I know pencils have graphite, not lead.)

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#13 16-09-2020 09:40PM
Queasy Tadpole

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Something else?
A pencil sharpener.

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#14 16-09-2020 09:42PM
Eleven Benevolent Elephants

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Mehaffey1 wrote: »

Sharpener here from 'The North'

That's a real Monaghan name!

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#15 16-09-2020 09:44PM
PsychoPete

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Sharpener
The answer is topper and every other word for it is wrong

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#16 16-09-2020 09:47PM
Mam of 4

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A pencil parer .
A topper sounds like something that should sit on top of the pencil !

https://forumofgames.com/

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#17 16-09-2020 09:48PM
Snails pace

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Sharpener
Topper

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#18 16-09-2020 09:48PM
Beanntraigheach

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Topper
Me teeth

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#19 16-09-2020 09:49PM
Rodney Bathgate

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Mam of 4 wrote: »

A topper sounds like something that should sit on top of the pencil !

Like an eraser? One of the wedge shaped one...

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#20 16-09-2020 09:50PM
Mam of 4

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Rodney Bathgate wrote: »

Like an eraser? One of the wedge shaped one...

Ha ha , like a top hat !

https://forumofgames.com/

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#21 16-09-2020 09:51PM
ladyella

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Topper
Ive never even heard of a topper, sounds like a toy or an old comic book. Its a parer

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#22 16-09-2020 09:55PM
o1s1n

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Topper

ladyella wrote: »

Ive never even heard of a topper, sounds like a toy or an old comic book. Its a parer

Topper is news to me too, never heard that one ever.

What county do the pencil toppers hail from?

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#23 16-09-2020 09:56PM
gozunda

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A 'pen' knife ....

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#24 16-09-2020 09:56PM
khalessi

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Call it both a parer and a sharpener
not option to vote both

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#25 16-09-2020 10:00PM
The Mighty Quinn

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Sharpener
A topper.

Wexford!

I remember kelloggs boxes having The Mask Pencil Toppers and being confused when they were things to stick on top of your pencil. Made them too top heavy and hard to use

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#26 16-09-2020 10:00PM
Signore Fancy Pants

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I call it a pencil pearer because it sharpens the pencil.

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#27 16-09-2020 10:01PM
JasonStatham

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Eleven Benevolent Elephants wrote: »

The thing you sharpen a pencil with.

A hatchet?

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#28 16-09-2020 10:05PM
Degag

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A pointer.Similar to most kids in the west i imagine. Anyone who called it a parer was surely a posh fecker?

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#29 16-09-2020 10:12PM
Mehaffey1

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Something else?

Eleven Benevolent Elephants wrote: »

That's a real Monaghan name!

From Armagh but living in Monaghan so you can't have been much closer!

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#30 16-09-2020 10:17PM
McGinniesta

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Knife.

I was a whittler.

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#31 16-09-2020 10:21PM
Rothko

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Sharpener

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

Parer. Or if I’m feeling posh, a sharpener.

Married a culchie, though, and she and the kids call it a topper. I just can’t.

Parer sounds posher to me than sharpener.

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