clipper
意味
- 《複数形で》はさみ,バリカン
- (昔の)快速大型帆船,大型旅客機
例文
I can't find my fingernail clippers.
爪切りが見当たらないんだよ。
I can't find my nail clippers.
爪切りが見当たらないんだよ。
Eh, do you know where the nail clippers that were here before are?
ねえ、ここにしまってあった爪切り知らない？
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English clipper, equivalent to clip (“cut, shorten”) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns). The type of sailing ship is probably also from clip, in the sense of “move or run rapidly”. Perhaps influenced by Middle Dutch klepper (“swift horse”), from kleppen (“to clap”), which is onomatopoeic.