nipper

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One who, or that which, nips.
    — Watt saw the little movements of the stuff, the little bulgings and crumplings, and the sudden indrawings, where it was nipped, between forefinger and thumb probably, for those are the nippers.
  2. Any of various devices (as pincers) for nipping. plural-normally
  3. A child. UK,informal
    — Heard what I was saying, and nipped off to the patrols the very next day. Pretty smart for a nipper of seven, eh?
  4. A child aged from 5 to 13 in the Australian surf life-saving clubs. Australia
    — 2003 Some Like It Hot: The Beach As a Cultural Dimension SLSA has become a multi-million dollar enterprise comprising 262 clubs located around the Australian coastline, with 100000 members, which included thousands of juniors or 'nippers', as they were more commonly known.
  5. A boy working as a navvies' assistant. historical
  6. A mosquito. Canada,Newfoundland,slang
  7. One of four foreteeth in a horse. archaic
  8. A satirist. obsolete
    — […] ready backbiters, sore nippers, and spiteful reporters privily of good men.
  9. A pickpocket; a young or petty thief. obsolete,slang
  10. A fish, the cunner.
  11. A European crab (Polybius henslowii). archaic
  12. The claws of a crab or lobster.
  13. A young bluefish.
  14. A machine used by a ticket inspector to stamp passengers' tickets. dated
    — The railway ticket nipper has the identification number of the conductor on it […]
  15. One of a pair of automatically locking handcuffs.
  16. One of the gloves or mittens worn by fishermen to protect their hands from cold and abrasion. historical
    — Suddenly the line flashed through his hand, stinging even through the "nippers," the woolen circlets supposed to protect it.
动词 v.
  1. To seize (two ropes) together. transitive

词形变化

nippers plural nippers present,singular,third-person nippering participle,present nippered participle,past nippered past

词汇关系

衍生词
ghost nipper nose-nipper

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
English nip
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English nipper
From nip + -er.
词源 2
Etymology tree
English nip
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English nipper
From nip + -er.
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