didapper

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If we stood off th 'little didapper all night, you know we can all day. "

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  1. noun A small grebe, such as the dabchick.

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  1. Middle English didopper, alteration of divedap, from Old English dūfedoppa, pelican : dūfan, to dive; see dive1 + -doppa, a kind of bird.

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  1. Also diedapper, didopper (also in restored forms divedapper, divedopper), from Middle English *didopper, dydoppar, the same, with suffix of agent -er, as the older *divedoppe, devedoppe, dyvedap, used by Wyclif (as dippere, i. e., dipper, by Purvey) to translate L. mergulus in Deut. xiv. 17 and Lev. xi. 17 (where the A. V., and also the R. V., has “pelican” and “cormorant”); from Anglo-Saxon dūfedoppa, a general term for a diving bird (used to translate L. pelicanus, pelican), from dūfan, dive, + doppettan, dop, dip: see dive, dop, dopper, dip, dipper, dabchick.
 

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/ˈdɪdæpər/
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