English Dictionary

nip

/nɪp/

verb

To catch and enclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon.

She likes to nip at her sister when they play.

意味（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.

May this hard earth cleave to the Nadir hell, Down, down, and close again, and nip me flat, If I be such a traitress.

意味（2）

To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip.

The small shoots ... must be nipt off.

意味（3）

To benumb [e.g., cheeks, fingers, nose] by severe cold.

意味（4）

To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.

意味（5）

To annoy, as by nipping.

And sharp remorse his heart did prick and nip.

意味（6）

To taunt.

意味（7）

(Scotland, Northern England) To squeeze or pinch.

意味（8）

(obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) To steal; especially to cut a purse.

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.

意味（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. …"