▪ I. jipper dial.
(ˈdʒɪpə(r))
Also gipper.
Gravy; dripping; stew. So as v. trans., to baste.
| 1822 Scott Nigel III. vi. 176 This man Gregory is not fit to jipper a joint with him. 1886 W. H. Long Dict. Isle of Wight Dial. 31 Thee'st lat all the jipper out of the pudden. 1896 Farmer & Henley Slang IV. 59/2 Jipper (nautical), gravy. 1900 N. & Q. 9th Ser. V. 295 The chef de cuisine was an old navy pensioner, and his instructions were: ‘Mind you jipper them [sc. thrushes] well.’ From him I learned to call gravy ‘jipper’, and bread and dripping ‘bread-and-jipper’. 1904 Daily Chron. 12 Aug. 3/7 The mysteries of Irish stew, or ‘gipper’, as it is mysteriously termed in camp. 1909 H. G. Wells Tono-Bungay ii. iii. 195 They [sc. shavings] might be anything. Soak 'em in jipper,—Xylo-tobacco! |
▪ II. jipper
dial. or corrupt form of jeopard v.