different between skipped vs skipper

English

Verb

skipped

1. simple past tense and past participle of skip

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?sk?p.?(?)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?sk?p?/
• Rhymes: -?p?(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English skippere, skyppere, scippere, borrowed from Middle Dutch scipper, schipper, from Old Dutch *skip?ri, from Proto-Germanic *skip?rijaz. Doublet of shipper.

Noun

skipper (plural skippers)

1. (nautical) The master of a ship.

   Synonyms: master, captain
2. A coach, director, or other leader.
3. (sports) The captain of a sports team such as football, cricket, rugby or curling.

Descendants

• ? German: Skipper

Translations

Verb

skipper (third-person singular simple present skippers, present participle skippering, simple past and past participle skippered)

1. (transitive) To captain a ship or a sports team.

Etymology 2

From Middle English skippere, skyppare, equivalent to skip +? -er.

Noun

skipper (plural skippers)

1. Agent noun of skip: one who skips.
2. A person who skips, or fails to attend class.
3. (sports) One who jumps rope.
4. Any of various butterflies of the families Hesperiidae and its subfamily Megathyminae, having a hairy mothlike body, hooked tips on the antennae, and a darting flight pattern.
   • ca. 1864, John Clare, "We passed by green closes":

     Blue skippers in sunny hours ope and shut

     Where wormwood and grunsel flowers by the cart ruts […]

5. Any of several marine fishes that often leap above water, especially Cololabis saira, the Pacific saury.
6. (obsolete) A young, thoughtless person.
7. The cheese maggot, the larva of a cheese fly (family Piophilidae), which leaps to escape predators.

Translations

Etymology 3

Probably from Welsh ysgubor (“a barn”).

Noun

skipper (plural skippers)

1. A barn or shed in which to shelter for the night.

Derived terms

• skipper-bird

Verb

skipper (third-person singular simple present skippers, present participle skippering, simple past and past participle skippered)

1. (intransitive) To take shelter in a barn or shed.

Anagrams

• Kippers, kippers

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English skipper.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ski.pe/

Noun

skipper m (plural skippers)

1. skipper

Verb

skipper

1. to skipper

Conjugation

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English skipper.

Noun

skipper m (invariable)

1. (nautical) skipper (person in charge of a vessel)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Middle Low German schipper

Noun

skipper m (definite singular skipperen, indefinite plural skippere, definite plural skipperne)

1. (nautical) a skipper

Derived terms

• fiskeskipper

References

• “skipper” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Middle Low German schipper

Noun

skipper m (definite singular skipperen, indefinite plural skipperar, definite plural skipperane)

1. (nautical) a skipper

Derived terms

• fiskeskipper

References

• “skipper” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.