different between pipper vs gipper

English

Etymology 1

PIP +? -er

Noun

pipper (plural pippers)

1. (military, slang) A marker indicating the PIP (predicted impact point) on a head-up display.

Etymology 2

pip +? -er

Noun

pipper (plural pippers)

1. (military, slang, in combination) A person wearing the specific number of stars on the shoulder of their uniform, implying a particular rank.
   • 1918, The Tatler (volume 67, page 306)

     Our caricaturist, Lieutenant Fred May, has this week specialised in “three pippers,” as all of the officers in the above collection, have attained to captain's rank, and have all, so we understand, been “through it" […]

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Etymology

From Middle English peper, from Old English pipor.

Noun

pipper

1. pepper

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

English

Etymology

gip (“clean [fish] for curing”) +? -er (suffix forming agent nouns)

Pronunciation

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) enPR: g??p?r, IPA^(key): /???p?/

Noun

gipper (plural gippers)

1. (obsolete except dialectal) One who gips (i.e., cleans fish in preparation for curing).

Translations

References

• ‘Gi·pper’ s.v. “Gip, v.” on page 173/1 of § 2 (G) of volume IV (F and G, ed. Henry Bradley, 1901) of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (1st ed.)

Anagrams

• grippe