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Doppers

Doppers is the plural of Dopper.

Meaning of Dopper

Noun

Dopper (plural Doppers)

  1. (derogatory) An Anabaptist or Baptist.
    • This is a Dopper, a she Anabaptist1625 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Staple of Newes. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Robert Allot […], published 1631, →OCLC, (please specify the page), (please specify the scene...
  2. (South Africa) A member of the Reformed Churches in South Africa, a Calvinistic denomination.
    • His Dopper community of the northeastern districts of the Cape Colony was considered more pious and socially conservative than any other community in the colony.2003, Hermann Buhr Giliomee, The Afrikaners: Biography of a People, page 177

Questions about Doppers

What is Doppers the plural of?
Doppers is the plural of Dopper.

Words near Doppers in the dictionary

  1. doppelgangers
  2. doppelgänger
  3. doppelgängers
  4. doppels
  5. Dopper
  6. Doppers
  7. doppich
  8. dopping
  9. doppio
  10. doppios
  11. doppleganger

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