gipper
See also: Gipper
English edit
Etymology edit
gip (“clean [fish] for curing”) + -er (agent noun suffix)
Pronunciation edit
- (General American) enPR: gĭʹpər, IPA(key): /ˈɡɪpɚ/
Noun edit
gipper (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 edit
one who gips
References edit
- “gipper, n.” under “gip, v.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.