topper

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English toppor, equivalent to top +‎ -er. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈtɒpə/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈtɑpɚ/ (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈtɔpə/ Rhymes: -ɒpə(ɹ) Hyphenation: top‧per === Noun === topper (plural toppers) Something that is on top. A top hat. Something that exceeds those previous in a series, as a joke or prank. (chiefly US) A short outer jacket worn by women or children. A soft, relatively thin, piece of padding placed on top of a mattress, or forming the upper layer of a mattress. (India) The student who achieves the highest score in an examination. (colloquial) The head or chief of an organization. A person or tool that cuts off the top of something. One who tops steel ingots. A single-handed dinghy, 11 foot (3.6 metres) in length, with only one sail. A three-square float, or file, used by comb-makers. (dated, slang) Tobacco left in the bottom of a pipe bowl; so called from being often taken out and placed on top of the newly filled bowl. 1875, E. R. Billings, Tobacco (page 189) One man was faithful to his pipe, and kept / Despair and deeper misery at bay, / By seeking ever for a "topper," dropped / From some spurned pipe, but that he could not find; […] (dated, slang) A fine or remarkable thing or person. (dated, slang) A blow on the head. A small secondary comic strip seen along with a larger Sunday strip, and usually by the same author. (Ireland) A pencil sharpener. Ellipsis of hair topper. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Further reading === topper (dinghy) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia == Dutch == === Etymology === From top +‎ -er. The bird name is generally taken to derive from the noun top ("top"), not the adjective top ("great, amazing"). Some have instead adduced the dialectal word dobber (referring to both the greater scaup and the tufted duck), which was apparently current in Zeeuws-Vlaanderen at some point, with devoicing of both d- (to t-) and -bb- (to -pp-) yielding this form. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈtɔ.pər/ Hyphenation: top‧per Rhymes: -ɔpər === Noun === topper m (plural toppers, diminutive toppertje n) someone or something excellent; a belter, a ripper the greater scaup, Aythya marila Synonym: toppereend ==== Derived terms ==== kleine topper toppereend === Further reading === topper (vogel) on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia nl == Latin == === Etymology === From *tod (“that”), and per. Compare semper, paulīsper, parumper, nūper. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈtɔp.pɛr] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈtɔp.per] === Adverb === topper (not comparable) (Old Latin) quickly This roughly translates 8.138-139 of Homer's Odyssey: οὐ γὰρ ἐγώ γέ τί φημι κακώτερον ἄλλο θαλάσσηςἄνδρα γε συγχεῦαι, εἰ καὶ μάλα καρτερὸς εἴη. === References === Walde, Alois; Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1954), “topper”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 692 “topper”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “topper”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. topper in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung == Norwegian Bokmål == === Noun === topper m indefinite plural of topp