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What do you call it?

Eleven Benevolent Elephants

The thing you sharpen a pencil with.

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Rodney Bathgate

Eraser?

nthclare

Rodney Bathgate wrote: »

Eraser?

Arazor

Gregor Samsa

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.

Eleven Benevolent Elephants

Rodney Bathgate wrote: »

Eraser?

You mean rubber.

Smee_Again

A parer.

Vowel Movement

pointer

Rodney Bathgate

Eleven Benevolent Elephants wrote: »

You mean rubber.

No, I mean penknife.

893bet

Topper

TheMilkyPirate

A topper

Mehaffey1

Sharpener here from 'The North'

Rodney Bathgate

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

Queasy Tadpole

A pencil sharpener.

Eleven Benevolent Elephants

Mehaffey1 wrote: »

Sharpener here from 'The North'

That's a real Monaghan name!

PsychoPete

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

Mam of 4

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

Snails pace

Topper

Beanntraigheach

Me teeth

Rodney Bathgate

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...

Mam of 4

Rodney Bathgate wrote: »

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

Ha ha , like a top hat !

ladyella

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

o1s1n

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?

gozunda

A 'pen' knife ....

khalessi

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

The Mighty Quinn

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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Signore Fancy Pants

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

JasonStatham

Eleven Benevolent Elephants wrote: »

The thing you sharpen a pencil with.

A hatchet?

Degag

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

Mehaffey1

Eleven Benevolent Elephants wrote: »

That's a real Monaghan name!

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

McGinniesta

Knife.

I was a whittler.

Rothko

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.