wiper
English
editPronunciation
edit- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈwaɪpɚ/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -aɪpə(ɹ)
Etymology 1
editNoun
editwiper (plural wipers)
- Someone who wipes.
- 1842, Robert Browning, “The Pied Piper of Hamelin”, in Dramatic Lyrics:
- So, Willy, let you and me be wipers / Of scores out with all men — especially pipers!
- Something, such as a towel, that is used for wiping.
- Something, such as a windscreen wiper, that is designed for wiping.
- A movable electric contact in some devices.
- (nautical) A junior role in the engine room of a ship, someone who wipes down machinery and generally keeps it clean.
- (obsolete, slang) An impertinent young man.
- 1876, George Staunton Brodie, Vagrant Verses: And a Play, page 163:
- I ask you now, ain't honesty a-written on my feechurs? / I say the wiper should be scorched who'd rob his feller-creatures.
Derived terms
editTranslations
editsomeone who wipes
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something used for wiping
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something designed for wiping
movable electric contact
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nautical: junior role in the engine room
Etymology 2
editFrom white (bass) and striper.
Noun
editwiper (countable and uncountable, plural wipers)
- A hybrid fish variety artificially bred from eggs of striped bass (Morone saxatilis) fertilized with white bass (Morone chrysops) sperm, or the opposite combination.
- 1983, Kansas Fish, Game Commission, “Fishing”, in Kansas Wildlife, page 16:
- As is the customary method for catching wipers at Keith Sebelius Reservoir, the trio was trolling with crank baits.
- 2013 January 23, Texas State University San Marcos Department of Biology, “Morone saxatilis”, in Texas Freshwater Fishes[1]:
- M. saxatilis X M. chrysops hybrids (wipers) are difficult to distinguish, showing intermediacy from parental types in basihyal tooth formation
- 2021 April 23, Stephen Klobucar, “The history and mystery of hybrid fishes”, in Meat Eater[2]:
- With good reason, wipers are among the most stocked hybrid gamefish in the United States. They won’t rival actual stripers for overall size, but wiper find a happy medium between the revered striper and the much smaller, pesky white bass.
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