Damper
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈdæmpɚ/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Damper is a noun meaning Something that damps or checks:.
Meaning
Something that damps or checks:.
More Meanings
- (countable, uncountable, chiefly New Zealand, Australia) Bread made from a basic recipe of flour, water, milk, and salt, but without yeast.
- (UK, slang, obsolete) A shop till.
- comparative form of damp: more damp
Example Sentences
The flour bespattering Squeaker's now neglected clothes spoke eloquently of his clumsy efforts at damper making.
A certain class of 'City Arabs' do nothing but steal provisions from shop doors and sell them for one-tenth of their value, or less, […] while a fourth again do nothing but "draw the dampers," i. e. steal from shop-tills.
You hypocritically claim that you are trying to ‘protect’ us; but your modern policy of ‘protection’ (so-called) is killing us off just as surely as the pioneer policy of giving us poisoned damper and shooting us down like dingoes!
1827, Peter Cunningham, Two Years in New South Wales, ii.190, quoted in G. A. Wilkes, A Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms, 1978, →ISBN, The farm-men usually bake their flour into flat cakes, which they call dampers, and cook these in the ashes.
Word Forms
- dampers
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include buffer, dumper, gate, absorber, cushion, cold.
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