# skipper
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈskɪp.ə(ɹ)/
* (General American) IPA: /ˈskɪpɚ/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪpə(ɹ)

### Etymology 1

From Middle English skippere, skyppere, scippere, borrowed from Middle Dutch scipper, schipper, from Old Dutch *skipāri, from Proto-Germanic *skipārijaz. Piecewise doublet of shipper, from ship +‎ -er.

#### Noun

skipper (plural skippers)
* (nautical) The master of a ship.
    Synonyms: master, captain
** 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter X, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:The skipper Mr. Cooke had hired at Far Harbor was a God-fearing man with a luke warm interest in his new billet and employer, and had only been prevailed upon to take charge of the yacht after the offer of an emolument equal to half a year's sea pay of an ensign in the navy.
* A coach, director, or other leader.
* (sports) The captain of a sports team such as football, cricket, rugby or curling.
** 2010 December 29, Sam Sheringham, “Liverpool 0-1 Wolverhampton”, in BBC‎:But even the return of skipper Steven Gerrard from a six-week injury layoff could not inspire Liverpool

##### Derived terms

* skipperless

##### 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.
** 2019, Tony Perrottet, “A Deep Dive Into the Plans to Take Tourists to the ‘Titanic’”, in Smithsonian Magazine:Tourist subs, which could once be skippered by anyone with a U.S. Coast Guard captain’s license

### 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.
** c. 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 […]
* Any of several marine fishes that often leap above water, especially Cololabis saira (Pacific saury) and Sprattus sprattus (European sprat).
* (obsolete) A young, thoughtless person.
** c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:Skipper, stand back; 'tis age that nourisheth
* The cheese maggot, the larva of a cheese fly (family Piophilidae), which leaps to escape predators.

##### Derived terms

* cheese skipper
* chequered skipper
* dingy skipper
* Essex skipper
* European skipper
* fiery skipper
* grass-skipper
* grizzled skipper
* iris-skipper
* large chequered skipper
* large grizzled skipper
* large skipper
* Lulworth skipper
* palmetto skipper
* paradise skipper
* sand-skipper
* sedge-skipper
* shield-skipper
* small skipper
* water skipper

##### 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.

### Etymology 4

Unknown, perhaps related to jumper.

#### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈskɪp.ə(ɹ)/

#### Noun

skipper (plural skippers)
* (South Africa) A short-sleeved (or long-sleeved) tee-shirt, or sweatshirt.
    Synonyms: jumper, tee-shirt
** 1971, Golden City Post, 26 June
    Plain nylon doeks...Men's knitted skippers, long sleeves, three buttons in front.
** 1987, w:Eastern Province Herald, 19 August
    The special constables..were issued with one pair of boots, two overalls, one raincoat, and two skippers — but no shirts or warm coats.
** 1990 May 26, O. Musi, Drum Magazine:My neighbour's little boy pestered his dad for a 'Viva' T-shirt. This long-suffering man pointed out to his son that he had been sharing his w:Cosatu skipper with him.., but the kid..did not want to wear it any longer as it was not, as he put it, 'skipa sa Mandela'.

### References

* ↑ “skipper”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* ↑ “skipper”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* ↑ “skipper”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* ↑ Dictionary of South African English‎, (Can we date this quote?)

### Anagrams

* Kippers, kippers

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from English skipper.

### Pronunciation 1

* IPA: /ski.pœʁ/
* Audio:(file)

#### Noun

skipper m (plural skippers)
* skipper

### Pronunciation 2

* IPA: /ski.pe/

#### Verb

skipper
* to skipper

##### Conjugation
### Further reading

* “skipper”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Italian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English skipper.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈskip.per/
* Rhymes: -ipper
* Hyphenation: skìp‧per

### 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.