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Definitions: Nipping |
NippingAdjective1. Capable of wounding; "a barbed compliment"; "a biting aphorism"; "pungent satire". 2. Pleasantly cold and invigorating; "crisp clear nights and frosty mornings"; "a nipping wind"; "a nippy fall day"; "snappy weather"; (`parky' is a British term). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "nipping" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
Synonyms: NippingSynonyms: barbed (adj), biting (adj), crisp (adj), frosty (adj), mordacious (adj), nippy (adj), parky (adj), pungent (adj), snappy (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Cold | Adjective: cold, cool; chill, chilly; icy; gelid, frigid, algid; fresh, keen, bleak, raw, inclement, bitter, biting, niveous, cutting, nipping, piercing, pinching; clay-cold; starved. (made cold); chilled to the bone, shivering. Verb: aguish, transi de froid; frostbitten, frost-bound, frost-nipped. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Nipping |
| English words defined with "nipping": crisp ♦ frosty ♦ Nippingly, nippy ♦ parky, Pinching ♦ snappy. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "nipping": trailing cable. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Jack Frost nipping at your toes, Mr. Peterson? (Cheers; writing credit: Isaac Cronin; Wayne Wang) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| "Nipping" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 96.67% of the time. "Nipping" is used about 60 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 96.67% | 58 | 44,427 |
| Noun (singular) | 3.33% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 60 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
teen nipping | 50 |
nipping | 47 |
girl nipping | 13 |
nipping puppy | 11 |
dog nipping | 8 |
nipping pic | 7 |
nipping picture | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "nipping"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | pickues (nipper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | قرص (bite, jab, nip, nip out, pill, pinch, sting, tweak). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | щипещ, остър (acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, angular, argute, arrowy, biting, bitter, crusty, cutting, edgy, excruciating, fine, fulminating, gabled, grating, gravelly, grinding, high pitched, keen, lancinating, metallic, nice, nippy, penetrating, penetrative, peppery, perspicacious, piercing, piquant, poignant, pointed, pungent, ragged, searching, sharp, shrill, slashing, stiff, strident, strong, tangy, trenchant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | ' (Gnaw, Gnawed, Gnawing, Nip, Nipped). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | kneifend (pinching), beißend kalt (biting cold). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κρύοσ (cold, crisp), τσουχτερόσ (crisp, keen, nippy, piquant, pungent, spicy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | צביט" (clasping, nip, pinch, pinching). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szorító (clamp, collar, dog, gripping, prise ring, prize ring, ropes, stressful), maró (acrimonious, biting, caustic, corrodent, corrosive, lashing, mordant, poignant, scathing, shrewd, virulent), csípő (haunch, hip, iliac, tingling, tingly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | tagliente (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, biting, clipping, cutter, cutting, cutting edge, drill bit, edgy, jackbit insert, keen, lurid, Pierce lever, sharp, slicing, stridently, trenchant), pungente (acrid, biting, bitter, cutting, nippy, piercing, poignant, pointed, prickly, pungent, racy, scathing, sharp, stinging). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | spulgey (peck, pecking, pick out; pinching, pinch, pluck out), lommanagh (baring, blighting, parching, scorching), goaill minniag. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ippingnay mordente (bits, cheek, clamp, clamping device, cutting, fixed, hold-fast, jaw, mordant, more, piquant, screw clamp, stain), gelado (bleak, chill, free for all, frigid, frosty, frozen, gelid, ice, ice cream cone, ice-cream, iced, iced melon, icy, winterly, wintry), frio (bleak, chill, chilly, clammy, cold, cold-hearted, coldlivered, coldness, cool, devil may care, dispassionate, edge, freezing, freezing cold, frigid, frost, icerink, ill, impaste, lifeless, non-com, Parky, passionless, phlegmatic, plodder, pre-cured tread, repulsive, reserved, soulless, tack, tepid, unresponsive, unsympathetic, winterly, wintry), cortante (acerbic, biting, clear-sighted, clipping, cutter, cutting, cutting edge, incisive, jackbit insert, keen, nippy, Parky, sharp, slashing, trenchant), alicate (dogs, forceps, nipper, pincers, pinchers, pliers, puller, tongs, tweezers). (various references) щиплющий. (various references) koji štipa. (various references) pellizcante, mordaz (acid, acrimonious, barbed, biting, blistering, cutting, incisive, mordacious, mordant, peppery, poignant, pointed, pungent, scathing, scorching, searing, sharp). (various references) sivri (acute, beaked, edged, jagged, pointed, pungent, sharp, sharp pointed, spinose, spinous, spired, spiry), keskin (acrid, acute, biting, bitter, blazing, chiseled, chiselled, cutting, dead, deep, edged, exquisite, incisive, keen, keen-edged, mordacious, nippy, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, piquant, poignant, pointed, pungent, quick, searching, severe, sharp, sharp cut, sharp-edged, sharp-set, smart, sour, spiky, splitting, stinging, strong, tart, trenchant), kesici (cutter, cutting, incisive, nipper, sharp), dondurucu (chilling, cryo-, cutting, deep-freezer, freezer, freezing, frosty, perishing, refrigerant), ısırıcı. (various references) ущипливий (acid, acrid, acrimonious, arrowy, barbed, caustic, cutting, pointed, stinging, tart), їдкий (acid, acrid, acrimonious, caustic, corrosive, poignant, scalding, scathing), різкий вітер, затиснення кригою судна, пінцирування, прищипування (topping), дошкульний (mordacious, pungent, waspish, waspy). (various references) rét buốt (gelid), chua cay (acrimonious, caustically, incisive, mordant, peppery, vitriolic), cóng cắt da cắt thịt cay độc. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "nipping": nippingly. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "nipping": snipping. (additional references) | |
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"Nipping" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: inpin, Jipping, Napang, nerping, niping, Nippan. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "nipping" (pronounced ni"ping) |
| 4 | -i" p i ng | Chipping, clipping, dipping, dripping, equipping, flipping, gripping, outstripping, ripping, shipping, sipping, skipping, slipping, stripping, tipping, tripping, whipping, zipping. |
| 3 | -p i ng | antidumping, aping, backslapping, beeping, bleeping, bookkeeping, bumping, burping, camping, capping, carping, chirping, chomping, chopping, clamping, clapping, clumping, coping, copping, cramping, creeping, crimping, cropping, damping, developing, draping, drooping, dropping, dumping, eavesdropping, enveloping, escaping, flapping, flopping, galloping, gaping, gasping, gossiping, grasping, griping, groping, grouping, gulping, handicapping, harping, heaping, helping, hoping, hopping, housekeeping, hyping, jumping, keeping, kidnaping, kidnapping, lamping, landscaping, lapping, leaping, limping, lopping, lumping, mapping, moping, mopping, napping, overlapping, overstepping, peacekeeping, peeping, pimping, piping, popping, prepping, propping, pulping, pumping, ramping, raping, rapping, reaping, recapping, recouping, regrouping, reshaping, revamping, romping, roping, safekeeping, sapping, scalping, scooping, scoping, scraping, scrapping, scrimping, seeping, shaping, shopping, sidestepping, skimping, slapping, sleeping, sloping, slumping, snapping, sniping, snooping, sopping, stamping, stepping, stereotyping, stomping, stooping, stopping, strapping, stumping, swamping, swapping, sweeping, swiping, swooping, tamping, taping, tapping, thumping, topping, tramping, trapping, trooping, typing, unwrapping, upping, usurping, videotaping, walloping, Wapping, warping, weeping, whooping, whopping, wiping, Wiretapping, worshipping, wrapping, zapping. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-i-n-n-p-p" | |
-1 letter: pining, piping. | |
-2 letters: piing. | |
-3 letters: ping. | |
-4 letters: gin, gip, inn, nip, pig, pin, pip. | |
-5 letters: in, pi. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-i-n-n-p-p" | |
+1 letter: snipping. | |
+2 letters: lippening, nippingly, propining, unripping, unzipping. | |
+3 letters: appointing, inclipping, inwrapping, kidnapping, pipelining, unclipping, unshipping. | |
+4 letters: pinpointing, pinpricking, preprinting, upspringing. | |
+5 letters: appertaining, apportioning, apprenticing, handicapping, interlapping, reappointing, transhipping, unappetizing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 69 70 70 69 6E 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-. .. .--. .--. .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01101001 01110000 01110000 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N i p p i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0069 0070 0070 0069 006E 0067 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)48758282758073 |
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