英语词汇skipper的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	skipper
词源	skipper. As scip meant ship in Old English, scipper meant a ship’s captain. By 1830 the English were pronouncing the latter word skipper and using it for the captain of a small merchant vessel, though it now refers to the captain of any ship.
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