different between nipper vs dipper

English

Etymology

nip +? -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?p?(?)/
• Rhymes: -?p?(?)

Noun

nipper (plural nippers)

1. One who, or that which, nips.
2. (usually in the plural) Any of various devices (as pincers) for nipping.
3. (slang) A child.
   • 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, p. 193. ?ISBN

     Heard what I was saying, and nipped off to the patrols the very next day. Pretty smart for a nipper of seven, eh?

4. (Australia) A child aged from 5 to 13 in the Australian surf life-saving clubs.
   • 2003 Some Like It Hot: The Beach As a Cultural Dimension

     SLSA has become a multi-million dollar enterprise comprising 262 clubs located around the Australian coastline, with 100000 members, which included thousands of juniors or 'nippers', as they were more commonly known.

   • 2008, Tania Cassidy, Robyn L. Jones, Paul Potrac, Understanding Sports Coaching: The Social, Cultural and Pedagogical Foundations of Coaching Practice

     It is the first day of training for a group of ten 'little nippers' (novice surf life-savers). An assortment of children expectantly hover in the clubhouse.

   • 2009, Didgeridoos and Didgeridon'ts: A Brit 's Guide to Moving Your Life Down Under

     Every club around Australia offers a Nippers programme. Nippers is open to children from the age of 5 through to 13 years old […]

   • October 6, 2011, [1]

     The Nippers program, for children aged five to thirteen, promotes water safety skills and confidence in a safe beach environment

   • September 5, 2013, Eve Jeffery, "Nippers season begins on the north coast", in Echonetdaily

     Of our movement’s 153,000 members, over 58,500 are nippers (5-13 years). This equates to nearly 40% of our total membership and shows just how significant the junior movement is within surf lifesaving.

5. (historical) A boy working as a navvies' assistant.
6. (Canada, slang, Newfoundland) A mosquito.
7. One of four foreteeth in a horse.
8. (obsolete) A satirist.
   • 1570, Roger Ascham, The Schoolmaster

     […] ready backbiters, sore nippers, and spiteful reporters privily of good men.

9. (obsolete, slang) A pickpocket; a young or petty thief.
10. A fish, the cunner.
11. A European crab (Polybius henslowii).
12. The claws of a crab or lobster.
13. A young bluefish.
14. (dated) A machine used by a ticket inspector to stamp passengers' tickets.
    • 1908, Transport World (volume 24, page 319)

      The railway ticket nipper has the identification number of the conductor on it […]

15. One of a pair of automatically locking handcuffs.

Synonyms

• (pickpocket): see Thesaurus:pickpocket

Translations

Verb

nipper (third-person singular simple present nippers, present participle nippering, simple past and past participle nippered)

1. (nautical, transitive) To seize (two ropes) together.

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