different between disappears vs didapper

English

Verb

disappears

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disappear

Anagrams

• parapsides

English

Etymology

From Middle English dydoppar, from earlier douedoppe, deuedep, dyuedap with agentive suffix -er, from Old English d?fedoppa (“diving bird, pelican”), from d?fan (“to dive”) + *doppa (“diver”) (whence modern English dop (“diving bird”)). Synchronically equivalent to dive +? dop +? -er.

Noun

didapper (plural didappers)

1. A small diving water bird frequenting rivers and fresh waters, specifically a little grebe or dabchick.
2. (obsolete, derogatory) A scoundrel, a worthless person.
   • 1589, John Lyly, Pappe with an hatchet, page 3:

     If a Martin can play at che?tes, as well as his nephewe the ape, he ?hall knowe what it is for a ?caddle pawne, to cro??e a Bi?hop in his owne walke. Such dydoppers must be taken vp, els theile not ?tick to check the king.

   • 1592, Thomas Nashe, Strange newes, of the intercepting certaine letters, and a conuoy of ver?es, as they were going priuilie to victuall the Low Countries:

     In earne?t thus; There is a Doctor and his Fart, that haue kept a foule ?tinking ?tirre in Paules Churchyard; I crie him mercie I ?laundered him, he is ?car?e a Doctor till he hath done his Acts: this dodipoule, this didopper, this profe??ed poetical braggart, hath raild vpon me with out wit or art, in certaine foure penniworth of Letters, and three farthing-worth of Sonnets; now do I meane to pre?ent him and Shakerley to the Queens foole-taker for coatch-hor?es: for two that draw more equallie in one Oratoriall yoke of vaine-glorie there is not vnder heauen.

   • 1600, William Kempe, Kemps nine daies vvonder, page 6:

     In this towne two Cut-pur?es were taken, that with other two of their companions followed mee from Lõdon (as many better di?po?ed per?ons did): but the?e two dy-doppers gaue out when they were apprehended, that they had laid wagers and betted about my iourney; […]

References

• Notes on the birds of Herefordshire, Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club
• didapper in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• “d??ve-dap, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved November 2019.