different between tipper vs tourist

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

Etymology

From tour +? -ist.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t????st/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?t??.?st/, /?t?.?st/, /?t??.?st/

Noun

tourist (plural tourists)

1. Someone who travels for pleasure rather than for business. [from 1770s]
2. (derogatory) One who visits a place or attends a social event out of curiosity, wanting to watch without commitment or involvement.
3. (sports, informal) A member of the visiting team in a match.

Derived terms

Related terms

• tour
• tour guide
• tourism
• Grand Tour

Descendants

All are borrowed.

Translations

Further reading

• Tourism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia