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Definition: Whipper |
WhipperNoun1. A person who administers punishment by wielding a switch or whip. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "whipper" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1841. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Mining | Person who raises coal, merchandise, etc., with a whip, as from a ship'shold. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: WhipperSynonym: switcher (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Assemblage | Collector, gatherer; whip, whipper in. |
Director | Driver, whip, Jehu, charioteer; coachman, carman, cabman; postilion, vetturino, muleteer, arriero, teamster; whipper in. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Whipper |
| English words defined with "whipper": Untrusser. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "whipper": FLOGGING COVE ♦ GRIP WRAPPER. (references) |
| "Whipper" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Whipper" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "whipper": cream whipper ♦ whipper in. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "whipper": whipper-in, whipper-snapper, whipper-snappers. | |
Ending with "whipper": Coal-whipper. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
cream whipper | 20 |
whipper | 14 |
snapper whipper | 11 |
whipper will | 7 |
isi cream whipper | 6 |
bird whipper will | 5 |
snipper whipper | 5 |
whip cream whipper | 3 |
clipper whipper | 3 |
snippers whipper | 2 |
design snapper whipper | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "whipper"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | mburravec (blusterer, boaster, bouncer, brag, braggadocio, braggart, bucko, Hector, ostentatious, scaramouch, spread eagle, whipper-snapper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | السواط. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | фукльо (rooster, whipper-snapper), нахакано хлапе (whipper-snapper), надуто нищожество (whipper-snapper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 搅打器. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | psovod (handler), mrskaè. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | piskemaskine til floede (cream whipper), floedepisker (cream whipper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | roomklopper (cream whipper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | piqueur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Rahmschlagmaschine (cream whipper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μαστιγωτήσ (lasher). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מטרף (cream whipper, egg beater, shaker). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | ostoros. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | frullatore per crema (cream whipper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | custheyr (bircher, chastiser, flogger, scourge). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ipperwhay batedor de natas (cream whipper). (various references) hãitaş (beater, pursuer, whipper-in), gâgâlice (crumb, dandiprat, dumpy, hop-o'-my-thumb, trifle, whipper-snapper). (various references) бичеватель. (various references) uobraženko (jackanapes, whippersnapper, whipper-snapper), redar političke stranke (whipper-in), lovac koji upravlja psima (whipper-in). (various references) kamçı (colt, horsewhip, rawhide, scourge, whip), kırbaçlayan kimse, kırbaç (horsewhip, kourbash, kurbash, scourge, taws, tawse, whip). (various references) нікчема (blighter, bum, cipher, duffer, ne'er do well, nihil, nit, nobody, nonentity, nought, nullity, pygmy, snake, snipe, snipper-snapper, wastrel, wet, whipper-snapper, whipster, zero), молокосос (greenhorn, pup, puppy, sapling, whipper-snapper). (various references) nhóc con hay quấy rầy (whipper-snapper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "whipper": whippers, whippersnapper, whippersnappers. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "whipper": horsewhipper. (additional references) | |
Words containing "whipper": horsewhippers. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "whipper" (pronounced 'Whip"per'): Attemper, Capper, Chopper, Clipper, Contemper, Cropper, Cupper, Dapper, flapper, flipper, Fripper, Mistemper, Nipper, Obtemper, Overpamper, Pamper, Pauper, Rapper, Recapper, Reshipper, sapper, Scorper, scupper, shipper, shopper, sipper, Snipper, Sopper, stepper, strapper, Swipper, tapper, tipper, topper, trapper, tripper, Uncapper, Untemper, viper, Wrapper. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-h-i-p-p-r-w" | |
-1 letter: hipper. | |
-2 letters: piper, wiper. | |
-3 letters: heir, hire, peri, perp, phew, pier, pipe, prep, repp, ripe, weir, whip, whir, wipe, wire. | |
-4 letters: hep, her, hew, hie, hip, ire, peh, pep, per, pew, phi, pie, pip, rei, rep, rip. | |
-5 letters: eh, er, he, hi, pe, pi, re, we. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-h-i-p-p-r-w" | |
+1 letter: whippers, whippier. | |
+3 letters: worshipped, worshipper. | |
+4 letters: paperweight, whippletree, worshippers. | |
+5 letters: horsewhipped, horsewhipper, paperweights, whippletrees. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 68 69 70 70 65 72 |
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