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didapper

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di⋅dap⋅per

  [dahy-dap-er]
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–noun
a dabchick.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME dydoppar; shortened form of dive-dapper; see dap
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di·dap·per   (dī'dāp'ər)   
n.  A small grebe, such as the dabchick.

[Middle English didopper, alteration of divedap, from Old English dūfedoppa, pelican : dūfan, to dive; see dive1 + -doppa, a kind of bird.]
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