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dipper en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • [ˈdɪpə] (Australia, Received-Pronunciation)
  • [ˈdɪpɚ] ~ [ˈdɪpɹ̩] (Canadian, General-American, Standard)
  • (Australia) audio
  • /ˈdɪpɚ/ (Canadian, General-American, Standard)
  • /ˈdɪpə/ (Australia, Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From Middle English dippere; equivalent to dip + -er.

Meanings

  1. One who, or that which, dips (immerses something, or itself, into a liquid).
    • When the engine runs the dipper dips in the oil once in every revolution of the crankshaft and the oil is splashed on the cylinder walls. 2001, Thermal Engineering, Tata McGraw-Hill Education, →ISBN, page 472:
    • A chocolate dipper dips the cream centers into warm chocolate by hand; when taken out the creams are shaped [...] 1903, Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900, page 1189:
  2. Any of various small passerine birds of the genus Cinclus that live near fast-flowing streams and feed along the bottom.
  3. A cup-shaped vessel with a long handle, for dipping into and ladling out liquids; a ladle or scoop.
  4. (India, UK) The control in a vehicle that switches between high-beam and low-beam (i.e. dips the lights), especially when used to signal other vehicles.
  5. Any snack food intended to be dipped in sauce.
    • chicken dippers
  6. Someone who dips chewing tobacco or snuff.
  7. (slang) A pickpocket.
    • It is doubtful if the Victorian Londoner needed any warning, for the artful mobsmen, toolers, whizzers and dippers, together with their stickman accomplices, were everywhere in the crowds, in the underground, on railway trains […] 1976, Michael Harrison, Beyond Baker Street: A Sherlockian Anthology, page 117:
  8. (historical) A person employed in a tin plate works to coat steel plates in molten tin by dipping them.
  9. (historical) A person employed to assist a bather in and out of the sea.
  10. (historical, informal) A Baptist or Dunker.
  11. A delivery bowled that curves into or away from the batter before pitching.
  12. (India, North, South-Asia, derogatory, offensive, slang) an Indian-born immigrant residing in Western countries, often born in the 1990s or later

Forms

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Deriveds

rufous-throated dipper · Big Dipper · Little Dipper · brown dipper · honey dipper (other terms (some may be derived from above terms)) · skinny-dipper (other terms (some may be derived from above terms)) · fanny dipper (other terms (some may be derived from above terms)) · big dipper (other terms (some may be derived from above terms)) · faster than a minnow can swim a dipper (other terms (some may be derived from above terms)) · Cinclus schulzii · birds of the genus Cinclus · American dipper · cup-shaped vessel with a handle · quicker than a minnow can swim a dipper (other terms (some may be derived from above terms)) · robin dipper (other terms (some may be derived from above terms)) · Cinclus mexicanus · dipper well (other terms (some may be derived from above terms)) · Cinclus leucocephalus · Cyprus dipper · dipperful · Cinclus pallasii · European dipper · white-throated dipper · white-capped dipper · skinny dipper (other terms (some may be derived from above terms))

Descendants

dyper

Hyponyms

Cinclus cinclus (Cinclus)

Synonyms

pickpocket (pickpocket)

Translations (56)

ro căuș (vessel) · tr kepçe (vessel) · cmn 舀子 (vessel) · pl pluszcz (bird) · fi koskikara (bird) · bg черпа́к (vessel) · gd gobhachan (bird) · ru ковш (vessel) · de Schöpflöffel (vessel) · it merlo acquaiolo (bird) · xmm falo-falo (vessel) · pt melro-peixeiro (bird) · de Kelle (vessel) · ru черпа́к (vessel) · ru оля́пка (bird) · ru поло́вник (vessel) · tl tabo (vessel) · mk кос (bird) · cmn 勺 (vessel) · ca merla d'aigua (bird) · gd gobha-uisge (bird) · gd bog an lochain (bird) · pdt Schapkje (vessel) · nl pollepel (vessel) · fi kauha (vessel) · bcl tabo (vessel) · cs skorec (bird) · it mestolo (vessel) · cy trochwr (Baptist, Dunker) · de Wasseramsel (bird) · pt melro-d'água (bird) · sv strömstare (bird) · id sauk (vessel) · ca cassó (vessel) · gd bogachan (bird) · pt melro-aquático (bird) · tyz buôi (vessel) · es mirlo acuático (bird) · vi gáo (vessel) · id gayung (vessel) · vec mescol (vessel) · bg во́ден кос (bird) · hu vízirigó (bird) · vec méscoƚo (vessel) · nl waterspreeuw (bird) · cy trochwr (bird) · la trulla (vessel) · grc κύαθος (vessel) · es cucharón (vessel) · pl chochla (vessel) · cjs омаш (vessel) · fr louche (vessel) · hy ջրաճնճղուկ (bird) · sw dila (vessel) · cy bronwen y dŵr (bird) · ga gabha dubh (bird)