Found 4 items, similar to Nipping.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak)
Definition: nip
gigit
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: nip
cecak, cubit, mencubit, minum seteguk
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: nipping
nip
n 1: a small drink of liquor;
“he poured a shot of whiskey” [syn:
shot]
2: a person of Japanese descent [syn:
Jap]
3: a tart spiciness [syn:
piquance,
piquancy,
tang,
tanginess,
zest]
4: a small drink [syn:
sip]
5: small sharp biting [syn:
pinch]
[also:
nipping,
nipped]
nipping
adj 1: capable of wounding;
“a barbed compliment”;
“a biting
aphorism”;
“pungent satire” [syn:
barbed,
biting,
pungent,
mordacious]
2: pleasantly cold and invigorating;
“crisp clear nights and
frosty mornings”;
“a nipping wind”;
“a nippy fall day”;
“snappy weather”; (`parky' is a British term) [syn:
crisp,
frosty,
nippy,
snappy,
parky]
nip
v 1: squeeze tightly between the fingers;
“He pinched her
behind”;
“She squeezed the bottle” [syn:
pinch,
squeeze,
twinge,
tweet,
twitch]
2: give a small sharp bite to;
“The Queen's corgies always nip
at her staff's ankles”
3: sever or remove by pinching or snipping;
“nip off the
flowers” [syn:
nip off,
clip,
snip,
snip off]
[also:
nipping,
nipped]
nipping
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nip
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Nipping
Nipping
\Nip"ping\, a.
Biting; pinching; painful; destructive; as, a nipping frost;
a nipping wind.
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Nip
\Nip\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Nipped, less properly
Nipt;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Nipping.] [OE. nipen; cf. D. niipen to
pinch, also knippen to nip, clip, pinch, snap, knijpen to
pinch, LG. knipen, G. kneipen, kneifen, to pinch, cut off,
nip, Lith. knebti.]
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.
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May this hard earth cleave to the Nadir hell,
Down, down, and close again, and nip me flat,
If I be such a traitress. --Tennyson.
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2. To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting
edges of anything; to clip.
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The small shoots . . . must be nipped off.
--Mortimer.
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3. Hence: To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor
of; to destroy.
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4. To vex or pain, as by nipping; hence, to taunt.
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And sharp remorse his heart did prick and nip.
--Spenser.
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To nip in the bud, to cut off at the very commencement of
growth; to kill in the incipient stage.
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