单词 | dopper |
释义 | † doppern.1 Obsolete. One who or that which ‘dops’. 1. A diving-bird, a didapper. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > [noun] > order Podicipediformes (grebes) > podiceps ruficollis (dabchick) dive-dapa1000 doppe13.. dumping1393 dippera1425 didapperc1440 dopperc1440 ducker?a1500 dabchickc1520 dive-dapper1559 arsefoot1598 loon1678 penny bird1823 helldiver1839 Tom Pudding1848 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 127/1 Doppar, or dydoppar, watyr byrde. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 214/2 Doppar, byrde. 1634 W. Wood New Englands Prospect i. viii. 27 Snites, Doppers, Sea-Larkes. 2. A fishing-rod used in ‘dopping’ or dapping. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > rod > [noun] > types of rod pole1577 telescope pole1675 fly-rod1684 dopper1688 whipper1688 bag-rod1787 telescope rod1820 salmon rod1841 greenheart1869 spinning-rod1870 loop-rod1885 roach pole1892 trunk-rod1893 sea-rod1902 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 103/1 A Dopper is a strong long Rod very tite. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2021). Doppern.2 A (Dutch) Baptist or Anabaptist; = dipper n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Baptists > [noun] > person Anabaptist1531 rebaptizer?1535 Catabaptist1561 dipper1617 Dopper1631 rebaptist1641 Wederdoper1647 baptist1654 waterman1657 rebaptisant1728 1631 B. Jonson Staple of Newes iii. ii. 151 in Wks. II This is a Doper, a she Anabaptist! a1637 B. Jonson Newes from New World 205 in Wks. (1640) III A world of Doppers! This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). Doppern.3 South African. The sobriquet of a member of the ‘Gereformeerde Kerk in Suid-Afrika’, a strictly orthodox Calvinistic denomination, commonly regarded as being old-fashioned in ideas, manner, and dress. ΚΠ 1850 N. J. Merriman Jrnl. 9 Dec. in Kafir, Hottentot, & Frontier Farmer (1854) 96 These Doppers are a sort of Dutch Church Puritans. 1859 Queenstown Free Press (S. Afr.) 4 May The Doppers would not be satisfied with an angel from heaven. 1881 Daily News 21 Jan. 5/5 Paul Kruger..Belonging to the sect of the Doppers. 1900 Daily News 13 Feb. 7/2 The burghers being chiefly of the ‘dopper’ or back-country class. 1926 Brit. Weekly 27 May 158/1 The charming Dutch girl lived with her old Dopper father on a nearby farm. 1958 Cape Times 27 Dec. 3/6 The old dopper town of Krugersdorp. Derivatives ˈDopperdom n. rare the Doppers collectively. ΚΠ 1898 W. Harcourt Let. 29 Aug. in A. G. Gardiner Life W. Harcourt (1923) II. xxiii. 461 It is with a view to this that A. M. [sc. A. Milner] wants a display of more force..to ‘convince Dopperdom that England means war’, if Kruger does not do our bidding. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1c1440n.21631n.31850 |
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