Standard Lemma guide
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adj
Japanese.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated, ethnic, not-comparable, offensive, slang, slur
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adj
Abbreviation of new in package.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, not-comparable
Qualifier: classified ads
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name
Abbreviation of National Immunization Program.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, abbreviation, alt-of
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noun
A playful bite.
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noun
A pinch with the nails or teeth.
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noun
Briskly cold weather.
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noun
A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching
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noun
A small cut, or a cutting off the end.
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noun
A more or less gradual thinning out of a stratum.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: business, mining
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noun
A blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A biting sarcasm; a taunt.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A short turn in a rope.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: nautical, transport
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noun
The place of intersection where one roll touches another
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: arts, crafts, hobbies, lifestyle, papermaking
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noun
A pickpocket.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, obsolete
Qualifier: thieves' cant
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Synonyms: cutpurse, dip, dipper, foist, footpad, gonoph, nip, nipper, pickpocket, pickpocketer, pickpurse, prig
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noun
A small amount of food or drink, (particularly) a small amount of liquor.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: nibble, a little of the creature
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noun
A nipple, usually of a woman.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: in-plural, slang, vulgar
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noun
A hamburger.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northwestern, Ontario
Qualifier: Manitoba
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noun
Alternative spelling of Nip; a Japanese person.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative, dated, ethnic, offensive, slang, slur
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noun
A Japanese person.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated, ethnic, offensive, slang, slur
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noun
Abbreviation of non-native invasive plant.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of
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noun
Abbreviation of notice of intended prosecution.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, abbreviation, alt-of
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verb
To catch and enclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon.
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verb
To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip.
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verb
To benumb [e.g., cheeks, fingers, nose] by severe cold.
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verb
To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.
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verb
To annoy, as by nipping.
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verb
To taunt.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
To squeeze or pinch.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, Scotland
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verb
To steal; especially to cut a purse.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, obsolete
Qualifier: thieves' cant
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Synonyms: steal, abduct, abstract, appropriate, bag, bandit, bash and grab, bone, boost, burgle, burglarize, borrow, cheat, chore, commandeer, confiscate, convert, cop, cozen, crib, embezzle, filch, fleece, flog, gaffle, gilravage, half-inch, heave, heist, jack, kidnap, knock off, kipe, kyper, liberate, lift, loot, make off with, mill, misappropriate, mooch, moonlight requisition, nick, nip, own, peculate, pickpocket, pilfer, pinch, pillage, pirate, plunder, poach, pocket, prig, purloin, raid, ransack, rape, relieve, reave, rip, rip off, rob, run off with, snag, snatch, sniggle, snitch, swindle, swipe, thieve, walk off with
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verb
To affect [one] painfully; to cause physical pain.'
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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verb
To have erect nipples.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang, vulgar
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verb
To make a quick, short journey or errand, usually a round trip.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
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noun
a small sharp bite or snip
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: pinch
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: clip, clipping, snip, bite, chomp
noun
a tart spicy quality
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: piquance, piquancy, piquantness, tang, tanginess, zest
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Broader terms: spiciness, spice, spicery
noun
the property of being moderately cold
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: chilliness, coolness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: coldness, cold, low temperature, frigidity, frigidness
noun
the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: relish, flavor, flavour, sapidity, savor, savour, smack, tang
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: taste, taste sensation, gustatory sensation, taste perception, gustatory perception
Narrower terms: lemon, vanilla
noun
(offensive slang) offensive term for a person of Japanese descent
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Jap
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: Japanese, Nipponese
noun
a small drink of liquor
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: shot
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Broader terms: small indefinite quantity, small indefinite amount
verb
give a small sharp bite to
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: bite, seize with teeth
verb
sever or remove by pinching or snipping
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: nip off, clip, snip, snip off
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: cut
verb
squeeze tightly between the fingers
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: pinch, squeeze, twinge, tweet, twitch
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: grip
Narrower terms: goose, tweak
History
Clipping of Nipponese, derived from Nippon, from Japanese 日本 (Nippon).
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.
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”).
Clipping of nipple.
Canada 1931.
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Across languages
24 source translations are retained for this English entry.
