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English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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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

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skipper (plural skippers)

  1. (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.
    • 2025 October 21, Rose George, “‘I knew in my head we were dying’: the last voyage of the Scandies Rose”, in The Guardian‎[2]:
      It is standard practice for search and rescue authorities to ask other vessels in the area to assist. Usually, this is done. The weather on the night of 31 December was too atrocious, and when at 11pm the Coast Guard asked the crabber Ruff & Reddy to head to the scene, its skipper refused, as a skipper has a right to do if he believes conditions to be too treacherous.
  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 Sport‎[3]:
      But even the return of skipper Steven Gerrard from a six-week injury layoff could not inspire Liverpool
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Descendants
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  • → German: Skipper
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Verb

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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

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

Noun

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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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Etymology 3

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Probably from Welsh ysgubor (“a barn”).

Noun

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skipper (plural skippers)

  1. A barn or shed in which to shelter for the night.
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Verb

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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

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Unknown, perhaps related to jumper.[4]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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skipper (plural skippers)

  1. (South Africa) A short-sleeved (or long-sleeved) tee-shirt, or sweatshirt.
    Synonyms: jumper, tee-shirt
    • 1971 June 26, Golden City Post:
      Plain nylon doeks...Men's knitted skippers, long sleeves, three buttons in front.
    • 1987 August 19, Eastern Province Herald:
      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

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  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?)

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French

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English skipper.

Pronunciation 1

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Noun

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skipper m (plural skippers)

  1. skipper

Pronunciation 2

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Verb

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skipper

  1. to skipper
Conjugation
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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

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English skipper.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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skipper m (invariable)

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

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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From Middle Low German schipper.

Noun

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

  1. (nautical) a skipper

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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From Middle Low German schipper.

Noun

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

  1. (nautical) a skipper

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