dipper
pronunciation
How to pronounce dipper in British English:
UK [ˈdɪpə(r)]
How to pronounce dipper in American English:
US ['dɪpər]
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- Noun:
- a ladle that has a cup with a long handle
- small North American diving duck; males have bushy head plumage
- small stocky diving bird without webbed feet; frequents fast-flowing streams and feeds along the bottom
Word Origin
- dipper (n.)
- late 14c., as a type of diving bird, agent noun from dip (v.). As a ladle or long-handled utensil for drawing liquid, from 1783, chiefly American English. As the popular U.S. name for the asterism known in Britain as The Plough or Charles' Wain, attested by 1833.
Example
- 1. Big dipper zaoyang gasket limited liability company .
- 2. The world limit envelops dipper championship .
- 3. I must be on my way . He handed the dipper back to nikol .
- 4. I think that at 11 p.m. I was looking north at the big dipper , not south toward her house .
- 5. Modern stargazers sometimes mistake it for the asterism known as the little dipper .