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DIDAPPER Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of DIDAPPER is a dabchick or other small grebe.
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didapper - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Noun · A small diving water bird frequenting rivers and fresh waters, specifically a little grebe or dabchick. · 1679, Francis Beaumont, Fifty comedies and ...
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DIDAPPER definition in American English - Collins Dictionary
2 senses: 1. a little grebe or dabchick 2. humorous, literary, rare a name sometimes used for someone who disappears and then.
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didapper
didapper (ˈdaɪˌdæpə(r)) Forms: 5 dydoppar, 6–7 dydopper, 7 didopper, dydapper, dy-dapper, 6–9 diedapper, 6– didapper. [A reduced form of dive-dapper, in same sense.] 1. A small diving water-fowl; = dabchick.c 1440 Promp. Parv. 121/1 Dydoppar, watyr byrde. 1565–73 Cooper Thesaurus, Collimbris, the bi...
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Didapper, hell-diver, dipchick, arsefoot - Andrew's Birding Stuff
Didapper happens to be an archaic synonym for one of my favourite water birds, the Little Grebe, which has the habit of diving abruptly and popping up again ...
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Webster's Dictionary 1828 - Didapper
DIDAPPER, noun [from dip.] A bird that dives into the water, a species of Colymbus. Websters Dictionary 1828. SITEMAP. Home · Preface · History · Quotations ...
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Del Henney
When Eight Bells Toll (1971) – Dungeon Guard
Villain (1971) – Webb
Straw Dogs (1971) – Charlie Venner
Brannigan (1975) – Drexel
Joseph Andrews (1977) – Didapper's
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DIDAPPER Definition & Meaning - Dictionary.com
Didapper, did′ap-ėr, n. a water-bird that is constantly dipping or diving under water—also called the Dabchick ...
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didapper, n. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English ...
The earliest known use of the noun didapper is in the Middle English period (1150—1500). OED's earliest evidence for didapper is from around 1440, in ...
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didapper | Dictionary of American Regional English
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"DIDAPPER": Small diving water bird species - OneLook
▸ noun: A small diving water bird frequenting rivers and fresh waters, specifically a little grebe or dabchick. ▸ noun: (obsolete, derogatory) A scoundrel, a ...
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John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey
Battestin, suggest that Pope's friend and fellow-satirist Henry Fielding intended the character of Beau Didapper in Joseph Andrews to be read as Hervey Didapper is also compared to Hylas, and is mistaken for a woman in the dark on account of his soft skin.
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