skipper
English
Pronunciation
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Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ɪpə(ɹ)
Etymology 1
From Middle English skippere, skyppere, scippere, from Middle Dutch scipper, schipper and Middle Low German schipper (literally “shipper”), equivalent to ship + -er. Cognate with Old English sċipere (“sailor”), Old Norse skipari (“mariner”).
Noun
skipper (plural skippers)
- (nautical) The master of a ship.
- 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 10, in The Celebrity:
- 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.
- A coach, director, or other leader.
- (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:
- But even the return of skipper Steven Gerrard from a six-week injury layoff could not inspire Liverpool
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Verb
skipper (third-person singular simple present skippers, present participle skippering, simple past and past participle skippered)
- (transitive) To captain a ship or a sports team.
Etymology 2
From Middle English skippere, skyppare, equivalent to skip + -er.
Noun
skipper (plural skippers)
- Agent noun of skip: one who skips.
- A person who skips, or fails to attend class.
- 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.
- ca. 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 […]
- ca. 1864, John Clare, "We passed by green closes":
- Any of several marine fishes that often leap above water, especially Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template., the Pacific saury(Please check if this is already defined at target. Replace
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- (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
- The cheese maggot, the larva of a cheese fly, in Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template., which leaps to escape predators.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “skipper”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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Etymology 3
Probably from Welsh ysgubor (“a barn”).
Noun
skipper (plural skippers)
Derived terms
Verb
skipper (third-person singular simple present skippers, present participle skippering, simple past and past participle skippered)
- (intransitive) To take shelter in a barn or shed.
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English skipper.
Pronunciation
Noun
skipper m (plural skippers)
Verb
skipper
- to skipper
Conjugation
infinitive | simple | skipper | |||||
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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 | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | skippe /skip/ |
— | skippons /ski.pɔ̃/ |
skippez /ski.pe/ |
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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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English skipper.
Noun
skipper m (uncountable)
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Middle Low German schipper
Noun
skipper m (definite singular skipperen, indefinite plural skippere, definite plural skipperne)
Derived terms
References
- “skipper” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Middle Low German schipper
Noun
skipper m (definite singular skipperen, indefinite plural skipperar, definite plural skipperane)
Derived terms
References
- “skipper” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
- English 2-syllable words
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