Gipper vs Gipser - What's the difference?
gipper | gipser |
One who gips (i.e. , cleans fish in preparation for curing).
* 1641 , Simon Smith, The Herring-Bu??e Trade ,
(historical) A kind of pouch worn at the girdle.
As nouns the difference between gipper and gipser
is that gipper is one who gips (ie , cleans fish in preparation for curing) while gipser is (historical) a kind of pouch worn at the girdle.gipper
English
Noun
(en noun)page 9:
- One man takes the Herrings out of the VVell with the Ladner, and fils the Gippers' baskets. // 9 ' Gippers which cut their throats, and takes out the Guts, and fling the ful Herring into one Basket, and the ?hotten Herring into another.
References
* ‘Gi·pper]’ s.v.'' “Gip, ''v.''” on page 173/1 of § 2 (G) of volume IV (F and G, ed. (Henry Bradley), 1901) of ''[[w:Oxford English Dictionary, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles](1st ed.)
gipser
English
Alternative forms
* gipsireNoun
(en noun)- (Chaucer)
- (Lord Lytton)
