单词 | didapper |
释义 | didappern. 1. A small diving waterfowl; = dabchick n. 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 121/1 Dydoppar, watyr byrde. 1565–73 T. Cooper Thesaurus Collimbris, the birde called a Douker, or Didapper. 1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Somorgujo Ducking, diuing, a diedapper. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. v. 179 The nimble Teale, the Mallard strong in flight, The Di-Dapper, the Plouer and the Snight. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. ii. ii. i. 89 All fenny Fowle..as Ducks..Didappers, Waterhens. 1680 R. L'Estrange tr. Erasmus 20 Select Colloquies i. 10 One while up and another while down, like a Didapper. 1837 C. A. Wheelwright tr. Aristophanes Comedies II. 142 Daws, chickens, coots, wrens, ducks and didappers. 1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 216 From its diving propensities this bird [little grebe] is called Diver (Renfrew); Diedapper (Dorset, Hants, Norfolk); Divedapper, or Divedop (Lincolnshire); Divy duck (Norfolk); Dive an' dop (Norfolk). 2. Applied ludicrously to a person. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > fact or condition of being mocked or ridiculed > [noun] > state or quality of being ridiculous > ridiculous person didapper1589 antic1597 zany1606 balatron1623 figure of fun1811 sketch1917 Herbert1960 1589 J. Lyly Pappe with Hatchet 3 Such dydoppers must be taken vp, els theile not stick to check the king. 1612 R. Carpenter Soules Sentinel 20 Thou art a Didapper peering vp and downe in a moment. 1727 A. Pope et al. Περι Βαθους: Art of Sinking 27 in J. Swift et al. Misc.: Last Vol. The Didappers are Authors that keep themselves long out of sight, under water, and come up now and then where you least expected them. 1820 C. Colton Lacon §cccxlviii. 163 Wilkes was one of those didappers, whom, if you had stripped naked, and thrown over Westminster bridge, you might have met on the very next day, with..a laced coat upon his back, and money in his pocket. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < |
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