nip
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Động từ
verb- 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.
(Northern England, Scotland)To squeeze or pinch.
- 8.
(UK, obsolete)(obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) To steal; especially to cut a purse.
Đồng nghĩa: 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
- 9.
(obsolete)To affect [one] painfully; to cause physical pain.'
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. …"
- 10.
(slang, vulgar)To have erect nipples.
- 11.
(informal)To make a quick, short journey or errand, usually a round trip.
Why don’t you nip down to the grocer’s for some milk?
Danh từ
noun- 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
the nip of masses of ice
- 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.
(UK, obsolete)(obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) A pickpocket.
Đồng nghĩa: cutpurse, dip, dipper, foist, footpad, gonoph, nip, nipper, pickpocket, pickpocketer, pickpurse, prig
- 12.
A small amount of food or drink, (particularly) a small amount of liquor.
I’ll just take a nip of that cake.
He had a nip of whiskey.
Đồng nghĩa: nibble, a little of the creature
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From late Middle English nippen, probably of - or Dutch - origin, probably a byform of earlier *knippen (suggested by the derivative knippette), from knîpen, from *knīpan, from *knīpan, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *knīpaną (to pinch).