different between nip vs cramp
nip
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: n?p, IPA(key): /n?p/
- Rhymes: -?p
Etymology 1
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”).
Noun
nip (plural nips)
- A small quantity of something edible or a potable liquor.
- Synonyms: (of food) nibble, (specifically of alcohol) a little of the creature; see also Thesaurus:drink
Etymology 2
Clipping of nipple.
Noun
nip (plural nips)
- (slang, vulgar) A nipple, usually of a woman.
Etymology 3
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”)), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kn?pan? (“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.
Verb
nip (third-person singular simple present nips, present participle nipping, simple past and past participle nipped)
- To catch and enclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon.
- To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip.
- To benumb [e.g., cheeks, fingers, nose] by severe cold.
- To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.
- To annoy, as by nipping.
- To taunt.
- (Scotland, Northern England) To squeeze or pinch.
- (obsolete, Britain, thieves' cant) To steal; especially to cut a purse.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:steal
- (obsolete) To affect [one] painfully; to cause physical pain.'
- 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, XII [Uniform ed., p. 136]:
- 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. …"
- 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, XII [Uniform ed., p. 136]:
Translations
Noun
nip (plural nips)
- A playful bite.
- A pinch with the nails or teeth.
- Briskly cold weather.
- 1915, W.S. Maugham, "Of Human Bondage", chapter 118:
- The day had only just broken, and there was a nip in the air; but the sky was cloudless, and the sun was shining yellow.
- 1915, W.S. Maugham, "Of Human Bondage", chapter 118:
- A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching
- A small cut, or a cutting off the end.
- (mining) A more or less gradual thinning out of a stratum.
- A blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost.
- A biting sarcasm; a taunt.
- (nautical) A short turn in a rope.
- (papermaking) The place of intersection where one roll touches another
- (obsolete, Britain, thieves' cant) A pickpocket.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pickpocket
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 4
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Verb
nip (third-person singular simple present nips, present participle nipping, simple past and past participle nipped)
- (informal) To make a quick, short journey or errand, usually a round trip.
- Why don’t you nip down to the grocer’s for some milk?
Anagrams
- NPI, PIN, pin
Albanian
Etymology
From Proto-Albanian *nep?, from Proto-Indo-European *nép?ts (“grandson, nephew”). Cognate to Latin nepos (“grandson”) and Sanskrit ????? (nápat-, “grandson”). Reinforcement/influence or a borrowing from Latin is also possible.
Noun
nip m (indefinite plural nipër, definite singular nipi, definite plural nipërt)
- nephew
- grandson
Derived terms
See also
- mbesë
References
Dutch
Pronunciation
Verb
nip
- first-person singular present indicative of nippen
- imperative of nippen
Anagrams
- pin
Old Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /n??i?b/
Verb
nip
- Alternative spelling of níp
Mutation
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cramp
English
Etymology
From Middle English crampe, from Old French crampe (“cramp”), from Frankish *krampa (“cramp”), from Proto-Germanic *kramp? (“cramp, clasp”). Distant relative of English crop.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?æmp/
- Rhymes: -æmp
Noun
cramp (countable and uncountable, plural cramps)
- A painful contraction of a muscle which cannot be controlled.
- August 1534, Margaret Roper (or Thomas More in her name), letter to Alice Alington
- the cramp also that divers nights gripeth him in his legs.
- August 1534, Margaret Roper (or Thomas More in her name), letter to Alice Alington
- That which confines or contracts.
- Synonyms: restraint, shackle, hindrance
- 1782, William Cowper, Truth
- crippling his pleasures with the cramp of fear
- A clamp for carpentry or masonry.
- A piece of wood having a curve corresponding to that of the upper part of the instep, on which the upper leather of a boot is stretched to give it the requisite shape.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
cramp (third-person singular simple present cramps, present participle cramping, simple past and past participle cramped)
- (intransitive) (of a muscle) To contract painfully and uncontrollably.
- (transitive) To affect with cramps or spasms.
- 1936, Heinrich Hauser, Once Your Enemy (translated from the German by Norman Gullick)
- The collar of the tunic scratched my neck, the steel helmet made my head ache, and the puttees cramped my leg muscles.
- 1936, Heinrich Hauser, Once Your Enemy (translated from the German by Norman Gullick)
- (transitive, figuratively) To prohibit movement or expression of.
- 1853, Austen Henry Layard, Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon
- But the front of the animal , which was in full , was narrow and cramped , and unequal in dignity to the side
- 1853, Austen Henry Layard, Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon
- (transitive) To restrain to a specific physical position, as if with a cramp.
- You're going to need to cramp the wheels on this hill.
- 1633, John Ford, Perkin Warbeck
- when the gout cramps my joints
- To fasten or hold with, or as if with, a cramp iron.
- (by extension) To bind together; to unite.
- 1780, Edmund Burke, Principles in Politics
- The […] fabric of universal justice is well cramped and bolted together in all its parts.
- 1780, Edmund Burke, Principles in Politics
- To form on a cramp.
Derived terms
- cramp someone's style
Translations
Adjective
cramp (comparative more cramp, superlative most cramp)
- (archaic) cramped; narrow
References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “cramp”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
- cramp at OneLook Dictionary Search
Manx
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Adjective
cramp
- intricate, complex
Derived terms
- neuchramp
Mutation
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