different between pipper vs kipper

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

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Old English cypera "male salmon," perhaps related to Old English coper "reddish-brown metal" (see copper), on resemblance of color. Another theory connects it to kip "sharp, hooked lower jaw of the male salmon in breeding season," from Middle English kippen "to seize, snatch" but OED doubts this.

Noun

kipper (plural kippers)

1. A split, salted and smoked herring or salmon.
2. A male salmon after spawning.
3. (military, RAF World War II code name) A patrol to protect fishing boats in the Irish and North Seas against attack from the air.
4. (Britain, naval slang) A torpedo.
   • 2009, Jean Hood, Submarine (page 197)

     'Fancy running the risk of getting a kipper [a torpedo] to go with his grub.'

Derived terms

• dead as a kipper
• kipper tie
• done up like a kipper
• stitched up like a kipper

Translations

Verb

kipper (third-person singular simple present kippers, present participle kippering, simple past and past participle kippered)

1. (cooking) To prepare (a herring or similar fish) by splitting, salting, and smoking.

   • There was kippered salmon, and Finnan haddocks, and a lamb's head, and a haggis […]

Etymology 2

Short form of UKIP +? -er, influenced by kipper, the type of fish.

Noun

kipper (plural kippers)

1. (Britain, humorous, often with capital) A member or supporter of UKIP (UK Independence Party).

Etymology 3

Perhaps akin to Old Norse kjapt (“briskly; impetuously”), kippa ("to snatch; pull; jerk" > Middle English kippen (“to seize”)), kipra (“to wrinkle; draw tightly”), Norwegian kjapp (“fast; brisk”), Dutch kippen (“to seize; catch; grip”). More at kip.

Adjective

kipper (comparative more kipper, superlative most kipper)

1. (Britain, dialect) amorous
2. (Britain, dialect) lively; light-footed; nimble

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Estonian

Etymology

From Middle Low German schippere, cognate to English skipper. Dialectal "kippar" is loaned from a Scandinavian language. Compare Old Swedish skipari

Noun

kipper (genitive kipri, partitive kiprit)

1. skipper.
2. Head of a small ship.

Declension

References

• http://www.eki.ee/dict/ety/index.cgi?Q=kipper&F=M&C06=et