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skipper - 7 dictionary results

skip⋅per

1[skip-er]
–noun
1. the master or captain of a vessel, esp. of a small trading or fishing vessel.
2. a captain or leader, as of a team.
–verb (used with object)
3. to act as skipper of.

Origin:
1350–1400; ME < MD schipper, equiv. to schip ship + -er -er 1

skip⋅per

2[skip-er]
–noun
1. a person or thing that skips.
2. any of various insects that hop or fly with jerky motions.
3. any of numerous quick-flying, lepidopterous insects of the family Hesperiidae, closely related to the true butterflies.
4. saury (def. 1).

Origin:
1200–50; ME: locust. See skip 1 , -er 1
skip·per 1   (skĭp'ər)   
n.  
  1. Nautical The master of a ship.
  2. A coach, director, or other leader.
tr.v.   skip·pered, skip·per·ing, skip·pers
To act as the skipper of.

[Middle English, from Middle Dutch, from scip, ship.]
skip·per 2   (skĭp'ər)   
n.  
  1. One that skips.
  2. Any of numerous butterflies of the families Hesperiidae and Megathymidae, having a hairy mothlike body, hooked tips on the antennae, and a darting flight pattern.
  3. Any of several marine fishes that often leap above water, especially the saury Cololabis saira of Pacific waters.

Skipper

Skip"per\, n. 1. One who, or that which, skips.

2. A young, thoughtless person. --Shak.

3. (Zo["o]l.) The saury (Scomberesox saurus).

4. The cheese maggot. See Cheese fly, under Cheese.

5. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species of small butterflies of the family Hesperiad[ae]; -- so called from their peculiar short, jerking flight.

Skipper

Skip"per\, n. [D. schipper. See Shipper, and Ship.]

1. (Naut.) The master of a fishing or small trading vessel; hence, the master, or captain, of any vessel.

2. A ship boy. [Obs.] --Congreve.
Language Translation for : skipper
Spanish: capitán,
German: der Kapitän,
Japanese: 船長

skipper 
"captain or master of a ship," 1390, from M.Du. scipper, from scip (see ship). Transf. sense of "captain of a sporting team" is from 1830.
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