gipper
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From gip (“clean [fish] for curing”) + -er (agent noun suffix).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) enPR: gĭʹpər, IPA(key): /ˈɡɪpɚ/
Noun
[edit]gipper (plural gippers)
- (obsolete except dialectal) One who gips (cleans fish in preparation for curing).
- 1641, Simon Smith, The Herring-Busse Trade […][1], page 9:
- One man takes the Herrings out of the Well with the Ladnet, and fils the Gippers baskets. ¶ 9 Gippers which cut their throats, and takes out the Guts, and fling the ful Herring into one Basket, and the ſhotten Herring into another.
Translations
[edit]one who gips
References
[edit]- “gipper, n.” under “gip, v.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.