different between dipper vs diaper

English

Etymology

dip +? -er

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d?p?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?d?p?/
• Rhymes: -?p?(r)

Noun

dipper (plural dippers)

1. One who, or that which, dips (immerses something, or itself, into a liquid).
   • 1903, Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900, page 1189:

     A chocolate dipper dips the cream centers into warm chocolate by hand; when taken out the creams are shaped [...]

   • 2001, Thermal Engineering (Tata McGraw-Hill Education, ?ISBN), page 472:

     When the engine runs the dipper dips in the oil once in every revolution of the crankshaft and the oil is splashed on the cylinder walls.

2. Any of various small passerine birds of the genus Cinclus that live near fast-flowing streams and feed along the bottom.
3. A cup-shaped vessel with a long handle, for dipping into and ladling out liquids; a ladle or scoop.
4. (Britain, India) The control in a vehicle that switches between high-beam and low-beam (i.e. dips the lights), especially when used to signal other vehicles.
5. Any snack food intended to be dipped in sauce.

   chicken dippers

6. (slang) A pickpocket.
   • 1976, Michael Harrison, Beyond Baker Street: A Sherlockian Anthology (page 117)

     It is doubtful if the Victorian Londoner needed any warning, for the artful mobsmen, toolers, whizzers and dippers, together with their stickman accomplices, were everywhere in the crowds, in the underground, on railway trains […]

7. (historical) A person employed in a tin plate works to coat steel plates in molten tin by dipping them.
8. (historical) A person employed to assist a bather in and out of the sea.
9. (historical, informal, Christianity) A Baptist or Dunker.

Synonyms

• (pickpocket): see Thesaurus:pickpocket

Hyponyms

• (Cinclus): Cinclus cinclus (water ouzel)

Derived terms

birds of the genus Cinclus

• white-throated dipper or European dipper (Cinclus cinclus)
• brown dipper, Cinclus pallasii
• American dipper, Cinclus mexicanus
• white-capped dipper, Cinclus leucocephalus
• rufous-throated dipper, Cinclus schulzii

cup-shaped vessel with a handle

• Big Dipper
• Little Dipper

Translations

Anagrams

• ripped

English

Etymology

From Middle English dyaper, from Old French dyapre, diaspre, from Medieval Latin diaspra, diasprum from Byzantine Greek ???????? (díaspros, adj), from ???- (dia-, “across”) + ?????? (áspros, “white”). Doublet of jasper.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?da?(?)p?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?da?(?)p?/
• Rhymes: -a?p?(?), -a??p?(?)
• Hyphenation: di?a?per, dia?per

Noun

diaper (countable and uncountable, plural diapers)

1. A textile fabric having a diamond-shaped pattern formed by alternating directions of thread.
2. A towel or napkin made from such fabric.
3. (Canada, US) An absorbent garment worn by a baby, by a young child not yet toilet trained, or by an adult who is incontinent; a nappy.
4. The diamond pattern associated with diaper textiles.
5. Surface decoration of any sort which consists of the constant repetition of one or more simple figures or units of design evenly spaced.

Synonyms

• (absorbent garment): nappy (British, Australia); napkin (British, archaic); napkin (South African)

Derived terms

• diaperhood
• diaperism
• diaperwork
• incontinence diaper

Translations

Verb

diaper (third-person singular simple present diapers, present participle diapering, simple past and past participle diapered)

1. To put diapers on someone.
   • 2019, Michael Bent, Rosalie Bent, Understanding Adult Babies: Their Psychology and Lifestyles

     I diaper myself or she helps Diaper me and sometimes I get to wet them, she knows I like that. And she whispers in my ear that "baby wants to make a cummie in his Diapers […]

   Diapering a baby is something you have to learn fast.

2. To draw flowers or figures, as upon cloth.
   • 1622, Henry Peacham (Jr.), The Compleat Gentleman

     If you diaper upon folds, let your work be broken.

Translations

Anagrams

• Piedra, aperid, paired, pardie, piedra, repaid

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French dyapre.

Noun

diaper

1. Alternative form of dyaper

Etymology 2

From Old French diaprer.

Verb

diaper

1. Alternative form of dyapren