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skipper
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)
- (nautical) The master of a ship.
- Synonyms: master, captain
- A coach, director, or other leader.
- (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)
- (transitive) To captain a ship or a sports team.
Etymology 2
From Middle English skippere, skyppare, equivalent to skip +? -er.
Noun
skipper (plural skippers)
- Agent noun of skip: one who skips.
- A person who skips, or fails to attend class.
- (sports) One who jumps rope.
- 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 […]
- ca. 1864, John Clare, "We passed by green closes":
- Any of several marine fishes that often leap above water, especially Cololabis saira, the Pacific saury.
- (obsolete) A young, thoughtless person.
- 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)
- 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)
- (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)
- skipper
Verb
skipper
- to skipper
Conjugation
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English skipper.
Noun
skipper m (invariable)
- (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)
- (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)
- (nautical) a skipper
Derived terms
- fiskeskipper
References
- “skipper” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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swipper
English
Etymology
From Old English swipor, geswipor, from Proto-Germanic *swipraz. See swoop.
Pronunciation
Adjective
swipper (comparative more swipper, superlative most swipper)
- (obsolete, Britain, dialect, slang) nimble; quick
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