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hopper
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English hoppere, alteration of *hoppe (found in gras-hoppe (“grasshopper”)), from Old English hoppa (“one who hops, hopper”), equivalent to hop +? -er. Cognate with Dutch hopper (“hopper”), Swedish hoppare (“hopper, jumper”), Icelandic hoppari (“hopper”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?h?p.?(?)/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /?h?p.?/
- (US) IPA(key): /?h?.p?/
- Rhymes: -?p?(r)
Noun
hopper (plural hoppers)
- One who or that which hops.
- A temporary storage bin, filled from the top and emptied from the bottom, often funnel-shaped.
- A funnel-shaped section at the top of a drainpipe used to collect water, from above, from one or more smaller drainpipes.
- A device that feeds material into a machine.
- Various insects
- A grasshopper or locust, especially:
- The immature form of a locust.
- The immature form of a locust.
- The larva of a cheese fly.
- A leafhopper.
- Any of various hesperiid butterflies.
- A grasshopper or locust, especially:
- An artificial fishing lure.
- To catch a big fish, use a hopper that jumps across the pond surface.
- (slang) A toilet.
- 2010, Robert Hudson, Stories of an Unusual Life (page 250)
- The fresh-water container for the house was above the ceiling directly over the toilet. One day, I was comfortably seated on the hopper minding my own business, when a large portion of the ceiling came crashing down […]
- 2010, Robert Hudson, Stories of an Unusual Life (page 250)
- (music) An escapement lever in a piano.
- (obsolete) The game of hopscotch.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Johnson to this entry?)
- A window with hinges at the bottom, opened by tilting vertically.
- A hopper car.
- (chess) A fairy chess piece which moves only by jumping over another piece.
- A person or machine that picks hops.
Derived terms
Translations
Further reading
hopper on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Etymology 2
From Sinhalese ???? (?ppa).
Noun
hopper (plural hoppers)
- A Sri Lankan food made from a fermented batter of rice flour, coconut milk, and palm toddy or yeast.
Danish
Noun
hopper c
- indefinite plural of hoppe
Verb
hopper
- present of hoppe
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
hopper m or f
- indefinite plural of hoppe
Verb
hopper
- present of hoppe
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
hopper f
- indefinite plural of hoppe
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whopper
English
Etymology
whop +? -er
Noun
whopper (plural whoppers)
- (informal) Something remarkably large.
- 1939, Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, Edgar Allan Woolf, The Wizard of Oz
- There's a storm blowing up, Sylvester — a 'whopper', speaking in the vernacular of the peasantry.
- 1939, Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, Edgar Allan Woolf, The Wizard of Oz
- (informal) An outrageous or blatant lie.
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