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Definitions and meaning of nip

nip

English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: nĭp, IPA(key): /nɪp/
  • Rhymes: -ɪp

Etymology 1

From late Middle English nippen, probably of Low German or Dutch origin, probably a byform of earlier *knippen (suggested by the derivative Middle English knippette (“pincers”)), from Middle Low German knîpen, from Old Saxon *knīpan, from Proto-West Germanic *knīpan, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *knīpaną (“to pinch”).

Related to Dutch nijpen, knijpen (“to pinch”), Danish nive (“pinch”); Swedish nypa (“pinch”); Low German knipen; German kneipen and kneifen (“to pinch, cut off, nip”), Old Norse hnippa (“to prod, poke”); Lithuanian knebti.

Alternative forms

  • gnip, knip

Verb

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

  1. To catch and enclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon.
  2. To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip.
  3. To benumb [e.g., cheeks, fingers, nose] by severe cold.
  4. To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.
  5. To annoy, as by nipping.
  6. To taunt.
  7. (Scotland, Northern England) To squeeze or pinch.
  8. (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) To steal; especially to cut a purse.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:steal
  9. (obsolete) To affect [one] painfully; to cause physical pain.'
    • 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, XII [Uniform ed., p. 136]:
      He had never expected to fling the soldier, or to be flung by Flea. “One nips or is nipped,” he thought, “and never knows beforehand. …"
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Noun

nip (plural nips)

  1. A playful bite.
  2. A pinch with the nails or teeth.
  3. Briskly cold weather.
  4. A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching
  5. A small cut, or a cutting off the end.
  6. (mining) A more or less gradual thinning out of a stratum.
  7. A blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost.
  8. A biting sarcasm; a taunt.
  9. (nautical) A short turn in a rope.
  10. (papermaking) The place of intersection where one roll touches another
  11. (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) A pickpocket.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pickpocket
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Etymology 2

Short for nipperkin, ultimately from Middle Low German nippen or Middle Dutch nipen ("to sip; nip"; > Dutch nippen). Compare also German nippen (“to sip; taste”).

Noun

nip (plural nips)

  1. A small amount of food or drink, (particularly) a small amount of liquor.
    Synonyms: (of food) nibble, (specifically of alcohol) a little of the creature; see also Thesaurus:drink
Synonyms
  • (small amount of liquor): dram, snifter, slug, tot; see also Thesaurus:drink
Translations

Etymology 3

Clipping of nipple.

Noun

nip (plural nips)

  1. (slang, vulgar) A nipple, usually of a woman.
Derived terms
  • nip nop
  • nip slip

Verb

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

  1. (slang, vulgar) To have erect nipples.

Etymology 4

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

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

  1. (informal) To make a quick, short journey or errand, usually a round trip.

Etymology 5

Canada 1931.

Noun

nip (plural nips)

  1. (Manitoba, Northwestern Ontario) A hamburger.

References

  • Katherine Barber, editor (1998), “nip”, in The Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Don Mills, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
  • Roberts, David (2001 February 24) “Rock Royalty Buys Winnipeg ‘Crown Jewel’”, in The Globe and Mail, Toronto, page A3.

Anagrams

  • PIN, NPI, INP, pin

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *nepō, from Proto-Indo-European *népōts (“grandson, nephew”). Cognate to Latin nepos (“grandson”) and Sanskrit नपात् (nápat-, “grandson”). Reinforcement/influence or a borrowing from Latin is also possible.

Noun

nip m (plural nipër, definite nipi, definite plural nipërt)

  1. nephew
  2. grandson

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See also

  • mbesë

References

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

nip

  1. inflection of nippen:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
    3. imperative

Anagrams

  • pin

Old English

Noun

nip ?

  1. Meaning unclear, glosses Latin rudente, a form of rū̆dēns (“rope, roaring”)

References

  • Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “nip”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Old Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /n͈ʲiːb/

Verb

nip

  1. alternative spelling of níp

Mutation

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Hungarian nép.

Noun

nip n (uncountable)

  1. (Transylvania) people (as a large group)

Declension

References

  • nip in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

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