skipper
/ˈskɪp.ə/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.54 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Agent noun of skip: one who skips.
noun
One who jumps rope.
Example Sentences
- "The skipper Mr. Cooke had hired at Far Harbor was a God-fearing man with a luke warm interest in his new billet and employer, and had only been prevailed upon to take charge of the yacht after the offer of an emolument equal to half a year's sea pay of an ensign in the navy."
- "It is standard practice for search and rescue authorities to ask other vessels in the area to assist. Usually, this is done. The weather on the night of 31 December was too atrocious, and when at 11pm the Coast Guard asked the crabber Ruff & Reddy to head to the scene, its skipper refused, as a skipper has a right to do if he believes conditions to be too treacherous."
- "But even the return of skipper Steven Gerrard from a six-week injury layoff could not inspire Liverpool"
- "Tourist subs, which could once be skippered by anyone with a U.S. Coast Guard captain’s license"
- "Blue skippers in sunny hours ope and shut Where wormwood and grunsel flowers by the cart ruts […]"
- "Skipper, stand back; 'tis age that nourisheth"
Etymology
From Middle English skippere, skyppere, scippere, borrowed from Middle Dutch scipper, schipper, from Old Dutch *skipāri, from Proto-Germanic *skipārijaz. Piecewise doublet of shipper, from ship + -er.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *skey-, skippere, scipper, *skipāri, *skipārijaz, ysgubor
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈskɪp.ə/
- British English: /ˈskɪp.ə/