Noun: skippet
| Singular | skippet |
| Plural | skippets |
Sample Sentences
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Vpon the banck they sitting did espy / A daintie damzell, dressing of her heare, / By whom a litle skippet floting did appeare [1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 14:]
Nouns inflected like skippet
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Compare Icelandic skip, English skipper. See ship. See: Icelandic Nouns '
skip', English Nouns '
skipper'.