piper

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈpaɪ.pə/    美 /ˈpaɪ.pɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A musician who plays a pipe.
  2. Archaic form of pepper. alt-of,archaic
  3. A bagpiper.
    — At Glasgow Central and Edinburgh Waverley, the sounding of train horns was followed by a lone piper playing When the Battle's Over.
  4. A baby pigeon.
  5. A common European gurnard (Trigla lyra), having a large head, with prominent nasal projection, and with large, sharp, opercular spines.
  6. A sea urchin (Cidaris cidaris) with very long spines, native to the American and European coasts.
  7. A halfbeak (Hyporhamphus ihi) found in New Zealand.
  8. A broken-winded hack horse. obsolete,slang
  9. A person who smokes crack cocaine. slang
    — 2025, Rev. Yolanda E. Johnson, Dr. Viola J. Malone, Journey: Pain and Purpose On one occasion after returning from vacation one of the 'pipers' (crack addicts) as they were called, was in my kitchen cooking. That was the last straw.

词形变化

pipers plural

词汇关系

衍生词
drunk as a piper hornpiper pay the piper Pied Piper piper gurnard piperly sandpiper uilleann piper who pays the piper calls the tune
相关词
bagpiper hornpiper

词源

From Middle English piper, pipere; equivalent to pipe + -er. Piecewise doublet of fifer.
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