topper

Significado (Inglés)

1. (masculine) someone or something excellent; a belter, a ripper
2. (masculine) the greater scaup, Aythya marila

Conceptos

porrón bastardo

máximo

Sinónimos

toppereend

hooghtepunt

Traducciones

Bergente

fuligule milouinan

scaup

moretta grigia

greater scaup

vertice

zarro-bastardo

sivri

Höhepunkt

karabaş patka

Schlager

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈtɔ.pər/

Etimología (Inglés)

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.