didapper

American  

[dahy-dap-er] / ˈdaɪˌdæp ər /

noun

1. a dabchick.

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Etymology

Origin of didapper

1400–50; late Middle English dydoppar; shortened form of dive-dapper; dap

Example Sentences

His vacations were spent on the river where he learned to handle a canoe and skiff; and before he was fourteen could swim and dive like a didapper.

From Chit-Chat; Nirvana; The Searchlight by Holt, Mathew Joseph

Persons who observe them, as they fly, call to mind how Æsacus, the son of Priam, was changed into a sea bird, called the didapper.

From The Metamorphoses of Ovid Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes and Explanations by Riley, Henry T. (Henry Thomas)

Drake was a didapper to Mandevill:   Candish and Hawkins, Frobisher, all our Voyagers   Went short of Mandevil.

From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Yule, Henry

In the Peri Bathous Pope included Welsted as a didapper and an eel.

From Two Poems Against Pope One Epistle to Mr. A. Pope and the Blatant Beast by Guerinot, J. V. (Joseph V.)