gipper
See also: Gipper
English
editEtymology
editFrom gip (“clean [fish] for curing”) + -er (agent noun suffix).
Pronunciation
edit- (General American) enPR: gĭʹpər, IPA(key): /ˈɡɪpɚ/
Noun
editgipper (plural gippers)
- (obsolete except dialectal) One who gips (cleans fish in preparation for curing).
- 1641, Simon Smith, The Herring-Busse Trade […][1], page 9:
- One man takes the Herrings out of the Well with the Ladnet, and fils the Gippers baskets. ¶ 9 Gippers which cut their throats, and takes out the Guts, and fling the ful Herring into one Basket, and the ſhotten Herring into another.
Translations
editone who gips
References
edit- “gipper, n.” under “gip, v.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.