paperer

1 8.7

A person who puts wallpaper on walls as a job

noun
/ˈpeɪpərər/

Archaic

: empapelador

The paperer skillfully applied the wallpaper to the living room walls.

Examples

After hiring a paperer, the apartment looked completely refreshed with new patterns.
A professional paperer can transform any room with their beautiful wallpaper designs.
Well, maybe truck drivers do, or wall paperers, but not schoolteachers.

The Boys in the Band (1970)

Synonyms

paperhanger

vspaperer

1 7.4

A person who hangs wallpaper on inside walls

is broader applying to decorating walls beyond interior building surfaces

wall-paperer

vspaperer

1 4.4

A person who puts wallpaper on walls to decorate rooms

is the modern unhyphenated form used the same way

wallpaperer

vspaperer

7.3

A person who hangs decorative paper on walls

is about decorating walls with decorative wall coverings rather than only hanging

Compounds

wall-paperer

1 4.4

A person who puts wallpaper on walls to decorate rooms

Surface Forms

paperer singular

paperers plural

Morphology

paperer = paper (transparent) = paper + er

The meaning is directly compositional: a 'paperer' is someone who papers walls.

Etymology

The word paperer comes from paper and the ending -er, the same ending you see in baker or teacher, meaning 'one who does'. So a paperer is simply someone who 'papers' walls, that is, who covers them with wallpaper.