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Webster 1913 Edition

Didapper

Di′dapˊper

,

Noun.

[For

divedapper

. See

,

,

, and cf.

.]

(Zool.)

See

.

Webster 1828 Edition

Didapper

DIDAPPER

,

Noun.

[from dip.] A bird that dives into the water, a species of Colymbus.

Definition 2024

didapper

didapper

English

Noun

didapper ‎(plural didappers)

A small diving water bird frequenting rivers and fresh waters, specifically a little grebe.
(pejoratively) One who disappears for a time and suddenly reappears.
The writer was not heard from for some time, but when he published a new novel was known as a didapper.

References

Notes on the birds of Herefordshire, Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club