skipper

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English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

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[edit]

skipper (plural skippers)

  1. (nautical) The master of a ship.
    Synonyms: master, captain
  2. A coach, director, or other leader.
  3. (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[2]:
      But even the return of skipper Steven Gerrard from a six-week injury layoff could not inspire Liverpool
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Descendants[edit]
  • → German: Skipper
Translations[edit]

Verb[edit]

skipper (third-person singular simple present skippers, present participle skippering, simple past and past participle skippered)

  1. (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[edit]

From Middle English skippere, skyppare, equivalent to skip +‎ -er.

Noun[edit]

skipper (plural skippers)

  1. Agent noun of skip: one who skips.
  2. A person who skips, or fails to attend class.
  3. (sports) One who jumps rope.
  4. 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.[1]
    • 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 […]
  5. Any of several marine fishes that often leap above water, especially Cololabis saira (Pacific saury) and Sprattus sprattus (European sprat).
  6. (obsolete) A young, thoughtless person.[2]
  7. The cheese maggot, the larva of a cheese fly (family Piophilidae), which leaps to escape predators.[3]
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Translations[edit]

Etymology 3[edit]

Probably from Welsh ysgubor (“a barn”).

Noun[edit]

skipper (plural skippers)

  1. A barn or shed in which to shelter for the night.
Derived terms[edit]

Verb[edit]

skipper (third-person singular simple present skippers, present participle skippering, simple past and past participle skippered)

  1. (intransitive) To take shelter in a barn or shed.

Etymology 4[edit]

Unknown, perhaps related to jumper.[4]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

skipper (plural skippers)

  1. (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[edit]

  1. ^ “skipper”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  2. ^ “skipper”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  3. ^ “skipper”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  4. ^ Dictionary of South African English‎[1], (Can we date this quote?)

Anagrams[edit]

French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English skipper.

Pronunciation 1[edit]

Noun[edit]

skipper m (plural skippers)

  1. skipper

Pronunciation 2[edit]

Verb[edit]

skipper

  1. to skipper
Conjugation[edit]
Conjugation of skipper (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple skipper
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple skippant
/ski.pɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle skippé
/ski.pe/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses) 		present skippe
/skip/ 		skippes
/skip/ 		skippe
/skip/ 		skippons
/ski.pɔ̃/ 		skippez
/ski.pe/ 		skippent
/skip/
imperfect skippais
/ski.pɛ/ 		skippais
/ski.pɛ/ 		skippait
/ski.pɛ/ 		skippions
/ski.pjɔ̃/ 		skippiez
/ski.pje/ 		skippaient
/ski.pɛ/
past historic2 skippai
/ski.pe/ 		skippas
/ski.pa/ 		skippa
/ski.pa/ 		skippâmes
/ski.pam/ 		skippâtes
/ski.pat/ 		skippèrent
/ski.pɛʁ/
future skipperai
/ski.pʁe/ 		skipperas
/ski.pʁa/ 		skippera
/ski.pʁa/ 		skipperons
/ski.pʁɔ̃/ 		skipperez
/ski.pʁe/ 		skipperont
/ski.pʁɔ̃/
conditional skipperais
/ski.pʁɛ/ 		skipperais
/ski.pʁɛ/ 		skipperait
/ski.pʁɛ/ 		skipperions
/ski.pə.ʁjɔ̃/ 		skipperiez
/ski.pə.ʁje/ 		skipperaient
/ski.pʁɛ/
(compound
tenses) 		present perfect present indicative of avoir + past participle
pluperfect imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
past anterior2 past historic of avoir + past participle
future perfect future of avoir + past participle
conditional perfect conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive que je (j’) que tu qu’il, qu’elle que nous que vous qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple
tenses) 		present skippe
/skip/ 		skippes
/skip/ 		skippe
/skip/ 		skippions
/ski.pjɔ̃/ 		skippiez
/ski.pje/ 		skippent
/skip/
imperfect2 skippasse
/ski.pas/ 		skippasses
/ski.pas/ 		skippât
/ski.pa/ 		skippassions
/ski.pa.sjɔ̃/ 		skippassiez
/ski.pa.sje/ 		skippassent
/ski.pas/
(compound
tenses) 		past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — skippe
/skip/ 		— skippons
/ski.pɔ̃/ 		skippez
/ski.pe/ 		—
compound — simple imperative of avoir + past participle — simple imperative of avoir + past participle simple imperative of avoir + past participle —
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
  • past historic → present perfect
  • past anterior → pluperfect
  • imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
  • pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive

(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

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Italian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Unadapted borrowing from English skipper.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈskip.per/
  • Rhymes: -ipper
  • Hyphenation: skìp‧per

Noun[edit]

skipper m (invariable)

  1. (nautical) skipper (person in charge of a vessel)

Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle Low German schipper.

Noun[edit]

skipper m (definite singular skipperen, indefinite plural skippere, definite plural skipperne)

  1. (nautical) a skipper

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Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle Low German schipper.

Noun[edit]

skipper m (definite singular skipperen, indefinite plural skipperar, definite plural skipperane)

  1. (nautical) a skipper

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