dipper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪpə/
ipa: /ˈdɪpɚ/
rhymes: -ɪpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: dippers
Etymology: From Middle English dippere; equivalent to dip + -er.
Senses: examples: text: A chocolate dipper dips the cream centers into warm chocolate by hand; when taken out the creams are shaped [...]
ref: 1903, Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900, page 1189:
text: 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.
ref: 2001, Thermal Engineering, Tata McGraw-Hill Education, →ISBN, page 472:
glosses: One who, or that which, dips (immerses something, or itself, into a liquid).
glosses: Any of various small passerine birds of the genus Cinclus that live near fast-flowing streams and feed along the bottom.
glosses: A cup-shaped vessel with a long handle, for dipping into and ladling out liquids; a ladle or scoop.
glosses: 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.
examples: chicken dippers
glosses: Any snack food intended to be dipped in sauce.
glosses: Someone who dips chewing tobacco or snuff.
examples: text: 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 […]
ref: 1976, Michael Harrison, Beyond Baker Street: A Sherlockian Anthology, page 117:
glosses: A pickpocket.
glosses: A person employed in a tin plate works to coat steel plates in molten tin by dipping them.
glosses: A person employed to assist a bather in and out of the sea.
topics: Christianity
glosses: A Baptist or Dunker.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A delivery bowled that curves into or away from the batter before pitching.
Synonyms: sense: pickpocket
word: pickpocket
Hyponyms: sense: Cinclus
english: water ouzel
translation: water ouzel
word: Cinclus cinclus
Derived terms: word: birds of the genus Cinclus
word: white-throated dipper
taxonomic: Cinclus cinclus
word: European dipper
word: brown dipper
word: Cinclus pallasii
word: American dipper
word: Cinclus mexicanus
word: white-capped dipper
word: Cinclus leucocephalus
word: rufous-throated dipper
word: Cinclus schulzii
word: cup-shaped vessel with a handle
word: Big Dipper
word: dipperful
word: Little Dipper
sense: other terms (some may be derived from above terms)
word: big dipper
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word: dipper well
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word: fanny dipper
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word: faster than a minnow can swim a dipper
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word: honey dipper
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word: quicker than a minnow can swim a dipper
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word: robin dipper
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word: skinny dipper
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word: skinny-dipper