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clipper

See also: Clipper

English edit

Etymology edit

From Middle Dutch klepper and Middle English clippen, from Old English clyppan, from Proto-Germanic *klupjaną.[1] [2]

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clipper (plural clippers)

  1. Anything that clips.
  2. (chiefly in the plural) A tool used for clipping something, such as hair, coins, or fingernails.
  3. Something that moves swiftly; especially:
    1. (nautical) Any of several forms of very fast sailing ships having a long, low hull and a sharply raked stem.
    2. (informal) An Alberta clipper.
  4. (entomology) The Asian butterfly Parthenos sylvia, family Nymphalidae.
  5. (electronics) A circuit which prevents the amplitude of a wave from exceeding a set value.
  6. (historical) A person who mutilates coins by fraudulently paring the edges.
    • 1599 (date written), 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, [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[1], London: J. Bew, act II, page 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 […]
  7. (slang) A confidence trickster; a conman.
  8. (slang, obsolete) Anything showy or first-rate.
    • 1838, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, The Clockmaker:
      Well, he was courtin' Sister Sall. She was a real handsum looking gal; […] a real clipper, and as full of fun and frolic as a kitten.

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clipper (third-person singular simple present clippers, present participle clippering, simple past and past participle clippered)

  1. (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[2]:
      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.

References edit

  1. ^ https://books.google.be/books?id=jeeGAAAAQBAJ
  2. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “clipper”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

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Etymology 1 edit

From English clipper.

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clipper m (plural clippers)

  1. (nautical) heavy sailing ship
  2. (aviation) transatlantic airplane

Etymology 2 edit

From clip.

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clipper

  1. (transitive) to clip
Conjugation edit
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 – tu – nous vous –
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:
  • past historic → present perfect
  • past anterior → pluperfect
  • imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
  • pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive

(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

References edit

  • Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition

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