nip

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
发音 nĭp

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Alternative spelling of Nip; a Japanese person. alt-of,alternative,dated,ethnic,offensive
  2. A hamburger. Northwestern,Ontario
  3. A nipple, usually of a woman. in-plural,slang,vulgar
    — Did you manage to sneak a peek at her nips, bro?
  4. A small amount of food or drink, (particularly) a small amount of liquor.
    — I’ll just take a nip of that cake.
  5. A playful bite.
    — The puppy gave his owner’s finger a nip.
  6. A pinch with the nails or teeth.
  7. Briskly cold weather.
    — There is a nip in the air. It is nippy outside.
  8. A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching
    — the nip of masses of ice
  9. A small cut, or a cutting off the end.
  10. A more or less gradual thinning out of a stratum.
  11. A blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost.
  12. A biting sarcasm; a taunt.
  13. A short turn in a rope.
  14. The place of intersection where one roll touches another
  15. A pickpocket. UK,obsolete
    — A novice nip, newly arrived in London, went one afternoon to the Red Bull in Bishopsgate, an inn converted to a playhouse.
动词 v.
  1. To make a quick, short journey or errand, usually a round trip. informal
    — Why don’t you nip down to the grocer’s for some milk?
  2. To have erect nipples. slang,vulgar
  3. To catch and enclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon.
    — May this hard earth cleave to the Nadir hell, Down, down, and close again, and nip me flat, If I be such a traitress.
  4. To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip.
    — The small shoots ... must be nipt off.
  5. To benumb [e.g., cheeks, fingers, nose] by severe cold.
  6. To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.
  7. To annoy, as by nipping.
    — And sharp remorse his heart did prick and nip.
  8. To taunt.
  9. To squeeze or pinch. Northern-England,Scotland
  10. To steal; especially to cut a purse. UK,obsolete
    — Ben mort, shall you and I heave a bough, mill a ken, or nip a bung, and then we'll couch a hogshead under the ruffmans, and there you shall wap with me, and I'll niggle with you.
  11. To affect [one] painfully; to cause physical pain.' obsolete
    — 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. …"

词形变化

nips present,singular,third-person nipping participle,present nipped participle,past nipped past gnip alternative knip alternative nips plural gnip alternative knip alternative nips plural nips plural nips present,singular,third-person nipping participle,present nipped participle,past nipped past nips present,singular,third-person nipping participle,present nipped participle,past nipped past nips plural nips plural

词汇关系

衍生词
nip at frostnip in the nip nimps nip and tuck nipbacker nipcheese nipfarthing nip in the bud nipless nip-outnip-up nipper nip point

词源

词源 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.
词源 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”).
词源 3
Clipping of nipple.
词源 4
Canada 1931.
词源 5
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
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