nip

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1 1.2.1 Noun 1.2.1.1 Synonyms 1.3 Etymology 2 1.3.1 Noun 1.4 Etymology 3 1.4.1 Verb 1.4.2 Noun 1.4.2.1 Related terms 1.4.2.2 Translations 1.5 Etymology 4 1.5.1 Verb 1.6 Anagrams 2 Albanian 2.1 Noun 3 Korean 3.1 Noun

[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

• enPR: nĭp, IPA: /nɪp/, SAMPA: /nIp/

  Rhymes: -ɪp

[edit] Etymology 1

From Middle English nippen (“‘a small sip"\’”).

[edit] Noun

nip (plural nips)

1. A small quantity of something edible or a potable liquor.

   "I'll just take a nip of that cake."

   "He had a nip of whiskey."

[edit] Synonyms

• nibble

[edit] Etymology 2

Diminutive of nipple.

[edit] Noun

nip (plural nips)

1. (vulgar) A nipple, usually of a woman.

[edit] Etymology 3

Probably from a form of Middle Dutch nipen. Cognate with Danish nive (“‘pinch’”); Low German knipen; German kneipen and kneifen (“‘to pinch, cut off, nip’”), Old Norse hnippa (“‘to prod, to poke’”); Lithuanian knebti.

[edit] Verb

to nip (third-person singular simple present nips, present participle nipping, simple past and past participle nipped)

1. To catch and inclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon.

   • "May this hard earth cleave to the Nadir hell, Down, down, and close again, and nip me flat, If I be such a traitress." — Alfred Tennyson

2. To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip.

   • "The small shoots ... must be nipt off." — John Mortimer The Whole Art of Husbandry [1].

3. To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.
4. To vex or pain, as by nipping; hence, to taunt.

   • "And sharp remorse his heart did prick and nip." — Edmund Spenser

[edit] Noun

nip (plural nips)

1. A playful bite.

   The puppy gave his owner’s finger a nip.

2. A pinch with the nails or teeth.
3. Briskly cold weather.

   There is a nip in the air. It is nippy outside.

4. A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching; as, in the northern seas, the nip of masses of ice.
5. A small cut, or a cutting off the end.
6. A blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost.
7. A biting sarcasm; a taunt. (Hugh Latimer.)
8. (nautical) A short turn in a rope. Nip and tuck, a phrase signifying equality in a contest. [Low, U.S.]
9. (historical slang) A pickpocket.
   • 1977, Gãmini Salgãdo, The Elizabethan Underworld, Folio Society 2006, p. 27:

     A novice nip, newly arrived in London, went one afternoon to the Red Bull in Bishopsgate, an inn converted to a playhouse.

[edit] Related terms

• nip and tuck affair
• nip in the bud

[edit] Translations

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• Telugu: తుంచు (tuMchu)

[edit] Etymology 4

[edit] Verb

to nip (third-person singular simple present nips, present participle nipping, simple past and past participle nipped)

1. To make a quick, short journey or errand; usually roundtrip.
   • "Why don’t you nip down to the grocer’s for some milk?"

[edit] Anagrams

• Alphagram: inp
• NPI
• pin, PIN

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[edit] Albanian

[edit] Noun

nip m.

1. nephew

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Noun

nip (Revised Romanization of 닙, 닢)

1. (닙): mouth, lips; entrance
2. (닢): leaf