English Dictionary

nipper

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈnɪpə(ɹ)/

名詞

通例複数形 俗語 オーストラリア英語 歴史的 カナダ英語 ニューファンドランド英語 廃用 古風

One who, or that which, nips. / (usually in the plural) Any of various devices (as pincers) for nipping. / (slang) A child.

日本語の意味

噛むもの、噛む行為をするもの / （通常複数形）物を噛むための器具、はさみ状の道具 / （俗）子供

The nipper gave the annoyed cat a quick nip, then dashed behind the fence.

軽く噛む者は怒った猫をひと噛みしてから塀の後ろへと逃げ去った。

意味（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.

意味（2）

(usually in the plural) Any of various devices (as pincers) for nipping.

意味（3）

(slang) A child.

Heard what I was saying, and nipped off to the patrols the very next day. Pretty smart for a nipper of seven, eh?

意味（4）

(Australia) A child aged from 5 to 13 in the Australian surf life-saving clubs.

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.

意味（5）

(historical) A boy working as a navvies' assistant.

意味（6）

(Canada, slang, Newfoundland) A mosquito.

意味（7）

One of four foreteeth in a horse.

意味（8）

(obsolete) A satirist.

[…] ready backbiters, sore nippers, and spiteful reporters privily of good men.

意味（9）

(obsolete, slang) A pickpocket; a young or petty thief.

意味（10）

A fish, the cunner.

意味（11）

A European crab (Polybius henslowii).

意味（12）

The claws of a crab or lobster.

意味（13）

A young bluefish.

意味（14）

(dated) A machine used by a ticket inspector to stamp passengers' tickets.

The railway ticket nipper has the identification number of the conductor on it […]

意味（15）

One of a pair of automatically locking handcuffs.

nippers （ plural ）