nip

Significado (English)

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. To squeeze or pinch.
8. (obsolete) To steal; especially to cut a purse.
9. (obsolete) To affect [one] painfully; to cause physical pain.'

Noun

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. 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. A short turn in a rope.
10. The place of intersection where one roll touches another
11. (obsolete) A pickpocket.

Noun

A small amount of food or drink, (particularly) a small amount of liquor.

Noun

A nipple, usually of a woman.

Noun

A hamburger.

Conceptos

pellizcar

pellizco

trago

pizcar

picar

pinchazo

pinzar

sabor

abrasar

japonés

picotazo

aperitivo

coger con pinzas

cortar

Synonyms

pinch

bite

squeeze

tweak

nibble

clip

snap

tang

clamp

🗜️

twinge

chilliness

coolness

sting

pluck

snifter

peck

snip

grip

dram

peg

nick

frost

twitch

snorter

piquantness

zest

freeze

frostiness

snip off

bite into

gelidity

frigidity

grip with teeth

frozeness

glaciation

gnaw

piquance

tanginess

purloin

relish

clutch

sapidity

cold

🥶

savor

savour

iciness

coldness

sever

shot

sip

bitterness

smack

munch

bit

crush

steal

nip off

pick

⛏️

flavor

flavour

tweet

chill

piquancy

swipe

tackle

tie

tong

touch

truncate

tweeze

vellicate

want

wheedle

frost-bite

make off with

scratch off

snap at

thinning out

hold tightly

pinch back

help oneself to

thin-out

pinch-out

nip-out

scrape off

blunt

break off

button

carve

catch

champ

check

come over

compress

corral

curtail

cut

cut off

cut out

dock

drink

🥤

eat

🍽️

embroider

fasten

filch

filigree

flatten

fork out

fork over

goad

grasp

gulp

hold

hook

🪝

imbibe

jab

jam

mesh

nab

nettle

pick at

pilfer

pinching

pin down

pique

poke

press

prick

prickle

prod

puncture

rebuke

remove

reproof

run over

sarcasm

abridge

seize

shave

slacken

snatch

snitch

spur

squash

stick

strum

stunt

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/nɪp/

Etimología (English)

Inherited from inglés medio: nippen

Cognate with inglés medio: knippette

Cognate with neerlandés: nijpen

Cognate with danés: nive

Cognate with sueco: nypa

Cognate with bajo alemán: knipen

Cognate with alemán: kneipen

Cognate with nórdico antiguo: hnippa

Cognate with lituano: knebti

Cognate with neerlandés: nippen

Cognate with alemán: nippen

In summary

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.