When Louis Friedrich KLEPPER was born on 26 November 1887, in Long Grove, Lake, Illinois, United States, his father, Wilhelm KLEPPER, was 35 and his mother, Wilhelmina Sophia SCHMIDT, was 24. He died on 11 September 1888, in his hometown, at the age of 0, and was buried in Long Grove, Lake, Illinois, United States.
East German (mainly Silesian): from a dialect variant of Klöpfer (see Klopfer ).
German: nickname for a gossip, from Middle High German kleppern, klappern ‘to blabber, chatter, gossip’.
German: from the rare Middle High German word klepper ‘knight's horse’, probably originally a metonymic occupational name for someone who tended or bred such animals. From the 16th century, however, the term came to denote a low-grade horse, a ‘nag’, and also someone who castrated horses.
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