Dipperとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 dippere; equivalent to dip +‎ -er.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈdɪpə/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈdɪpɚ/
• 韻: -ɪpə(ɹ)

名詞

dipper (plural dippers)

1. One who, or that which, dips (immerses something, or itself, into a liquid).
   • 1903, Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900, page 1189:

     A chocolate dipper dips the cream centers into warm chocolate by hand; when taken out the creams are shaped [...]

   • 2001, Thermal Engineering, Tata McGraw-Hill Education, →ISBN, page 472:

     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.

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. (UK, India) 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.
   • 1976, Michael Harrison, Beyond Baker Street: A Sherlockian Anthology, page 117:

     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 […]

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, Christianity) A Baptist or Dunker.
11. (cricket) A delivery bowled that curves into or away from the batter before pitching.
12. (South Asia, North India, slang, derogatory, offensive) an Indian-born immigrant residing in Western countries, often born in the 1990s or later

同意語

• (pickpocket): see Thesaurus:pickpocket

下位語

• (Cinclus): Cinclus cinclus (water ouzel)

派生語

birds of the genus Cinclus

• Cyprus dipper
• white-throated dipper or European dipper (Cinclus cinclus)
• brown dipper, Cinclus pallasii
• American dipper, Cinclus mexicanus
• white-capped dipper, Cinclus leucocephalus
• rufous-throated dipper, Cinclus schulzii

cup-shaped vessel with a handle

• Big Dipper
• dipperful
• Little Dipper

派生した語

• → Kashubian: dyper (Canada, United States)

アナグラム

• ripped