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say it: DIP-ur
dipper is a noun meaning "a ladle that has a cup with a long handle". It is pronounced /ˈdɪpɚ/ — DIP-ur. It carries 5 recorded senses.
a ladle that has a cup with a long handle
a cluster of seven stars in Ursa Minor; at the end of the dipper's handle is Polaris
a group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major
small North American diving duck; males have bushy head plumage
small stocky diving bird without webbed feet; frequents fast-flowing streams and feeds along the bottom
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for dipper come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.