Dopper
See also: dopper
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]Dopper (plural Doppers)
- (derogatory) An Anabaptist or Baptist.
- 1625 (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 number in lowercase Roman numerals):
- This is a Dopper, a she Anabaptist
- (South Africa) A member of the Reformed Churches in South Africa, a Calvinistic denomination.
- 2003, Hermann Buhr Giliomee, The Afrikaners: Biography of a People, page 177:
- 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.