stipe
See also: Stipe
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /staɪp/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -aɪp
Noun
stipe (plural stipes)
Etymology 2
Shortened from stipendiary.
Noun
stipe (plural stipes)
- (historical, slang) A stipendiary magistrate.
- 2015, Barrington Black, Both Sides of the Bench, page 186:
- The lay magistrates in many parts of the country were cautious about the infringement by stipendiaries on to their particular patch, not least being that the stipe would take the more interesting work and leave them the dross.
References
- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
French
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Further reading
- “stipe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
West Frisian
Etymology
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Further reading
- “stipe (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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