different between tipper vs kipper

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?p?(r)

Etymology 1

tip +? -er

Noun

tipper (plural tippers)

1. Someone who tips; someone who gives a gratuity.

   The Americans are among the most generous tippers in the world.

2. (slang) A small moustache.
3. A goods vehicle with a tippable body, used for carrying loose materials such as gravel or rubble; a tipper truck or lorry.
4. A device for loading goods such as coal by tipping them.
5. One who gives private hints about racing or financial speculation, etc.; a tipster.
6. (also in plural form) A cutting tool used to cut off or trim the horns of stock animals; a horn tipper.

Synonyms

• (goods vehicle): dump truck, dumper truck, tipper truck, tip truck

Etymology 2

So called from the first brewer of it, one Thomas Tipper.

Noun

tipper

1. A kind of ale brewed with brackish water obtained from a particular well.
   • 1844, Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit

     a pint of the celebrated staggering ale or Real Old Brighton Tipper at supper

Anagrams

• Trippe

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

tipper

1. present tense of tippe

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