damper

Etymology

From damp +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (US) enPR: dămp′ər, IPA^(key): /ˈdæmpɚ/

Noun

damper (plural dampers)

Tuned mass oscillations damper.

1. Something that damps or checks:
   1. A valve or movable plate in the flue or other part of a stove, furnace, etc., used to check or regulate the draught of air.
   2. A contrivance (sordine), as in a pianoforte, to deaden vibrations; or, as in other pieces of mechanism, to check some action at a particular time.
   3. Something that kills the mood.
      • (Can we date this quote?) W. Black

        Nor did Sabrina′s presence seem to act as any damper at the modest little festivities.

   4. A device that decreases the oscillations of a system.
2. (chiefly Australia) Bread made from a basic recipe of flour, water, milk, and salt, but without yeast.
   • 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.

   • Rudyard Kipling, His Gift

     […] an open wood fire, from the ashes of which he drew forth (talking all the while) wonderful hot cakes called "dampers" […]

Adjective

damper

1. comparative form of damp: more damp

Anagrams

• deramp, ramped

Etymology 1

A calque of the English steamer.

Etymology 2

See dampe.

References

• “damper” in Den Danske Ordbog

Etymology 1

Etymology 2

From damp +‎ -er

See also

• dampar (Nynorsk)

References

• “damper” in The Bokmål Dictionary.