clipper
See also: Clipper
English
Etymology
From Middle Dutch klepper and Middle English clippen, from Old English clyppan, from Proto-Germanic *klupjaną.[1][2]
Pronunciation
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Noun
clipper (plural clippers)
- Anything that clips.
- (chiefly in the plural) A tool used for clipping something, such as hair, coins, or fingernails.
- Something that moves swiftly; especially:
- (nautical) Any of several forms of very fast sailing ships having a long, low hull and a sharply raked stem.
- (informal) An Alberta clipper.
- (entomology) The Asian butterfly Parthenos sylvia, family Nymphalidae.
- (electronics) A circuit which prevents the amplitude of a wave from exceeding a set value.
- (historical) A person who mutilates coins by fraudulently paring the edges.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene i]:
- Indeed, the French may lay twenty French crowns to one, they will beat us; for they bear them on their shoulders: but it is no English treason to cut French crowns, and to-morrow the king himself will be a clipper.
- 1781, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, London: J. Bew, Act II, p. 21,
- Many a wretch who has been drawn upon a hurdle, has done less mischief than those barterers of forged lies, coiners of scandal, and clippers of reputation.
- 2010, James Morrow, The Last Witchfinder
- Surtouts billowing in an unseasonably fierce wind, the ursine Chelmsford magistrate and his equally bulky constable herded their bound prisoners – three murderers, three thieves, a coin clipper, two convicted witches – across the Common […]
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- (slang) A confidence trickster; a conman.
- 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 16, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, OCLC 3174108:
- "You have head enough for both of us, Beck," said he. "You're sure to get us out of the scrape. I never saw your equal, and I've met with some clippers in my time too."
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Derived terms
- Alberta clipper
- Colorado clipper
- nail clipper
Descendants
- Dutch: (nautical) klipper, klipperaak m or f
Translations
anything that clips
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fast sailing ship
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See also
- Clipper chip
Verb
clipper (third-person singular simple present clippers, present participle clippering, simple past and past participle clippered)
- (transitive) To cut or style (the hair) using clippers.
- 2020 November 16, Dave Finlay, “Killer sliced open inmate's face while serving life for murdering dad and cutting up body”, in Glasgow Live:
- Rocks was having his hair clippered by another prisoner when Collins calmly walked past and sliced open the side of his face without breaking his stride.
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References
- https://books.google.be/books?id=jeeGAAAAQBAJ
- Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “clipper”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Anagrams
- cripple
French
Etymology 1
From English clipper.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kli.pœʁ/
Audio (file)
Noun
clipper m (plural clippers)
- (nautical) heavy sailing ship
- (aviation) transatlantic airplane
Etymology 2
From clip.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kli.pe/
Verb
clipper
- (transitive) to clip
Conjugation
Conjugation of clipper (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | clipper | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | clippant /kli.pɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | clippé /kli.pe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | clippe /klip/ | clippes /klip/ | clippe /klip/ | clippons /kli.pɔ̃/ | clippez /kli.pe/ | clippent /klip/ |
| imperfect | clippais /kli.pɛ/ | clippais /kli.pɛ/ | clippait /kli.pɛ/ | clippions /kli.pjɔ̃/ | clippiez /kli.pje/ | clippaient /kli.pɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | clippai /kli.pe/ | clippas /kli.pa/ | clippa /kli.pa/ | clippâmes /kli.pam/ | clippâtes /kli.pat/ | clippèrent /kli.pɛʁ/ | |
| future | clipperai /kli.pʁe/ | clipperas /kli.pʁa/ | clippera /kli.pʁa/ | clipperons /kli.pʁɔ̃/ | clipperez /kli.pʁe/ | clipperont /kli.pʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | clipperais /kli.pʁɛ/ | clipperais /kli.pʁɛ/ | clipperait /kli.pʁɛ/ | clipperions /kli.pə.ʁjɔ̃/ | clipperiez /kli.pə.ʁje/ | clipperaient /kli.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 | clippe /klip/ | clippes /klip/ | clippe /klip/ | clippions /kli.pjɔ̃/ | clippiez /kli.pje/ | clippent /klip/ |
| imperfect2 | clippasse /kli.pas/ | clippasses /kli.pas/ | clippât /kli.pa/ | clippassions /kli.pa.sjɔ̃/ | clippassiez /kli.pa.sje/ | clippassent /kli.pas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | clippe /klip/ | — | clippons /kli.pɔ̃/ | clippez /kli.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
References
- Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition
Further reading
- “clipper”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.