dopper

The nominal amplification provides poetic texture in the syllabic exchange of vowel and syllable, the quick, trochaic Anglo-Saxon stresses hitting the first beat of most words: "dipper, dapper, dopper, broad-bill, blue-bill."

Archive 2009-02-01 Rus Bowden 2009

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Mr. Newman is right in refusing to sacrifice a good word because it may be pronounced mean by individual caprice, wrong in attempting the fatal impossibility of rescuing a word which to all minds alike conveys a low or ludicrous meaning, as, for example, _pate_, and _dopper_, for which he does battle doughtily.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 Various

The last of the old-world Puritans, he departed poring over his well-thumbed Bible, and proclaiming that the troubles of his country arose, not from his own narrow and corrupt administration, but from some departure on the part of his fellow burghers from the stricter tenets of the dopper sect.

The Great Boer War Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

"Alamachtig," said a Rustenburg dopper who, at the end of the day, fell into the hands of the English, "it was like cutting alfalfa with

The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

"Alamachtig," said a Rustenburg dopper who, at the end of the day, fell into the hands of the English, "it was like cutting alfalfa with

The Judgment House Gilbert Parker 1897