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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)

1. 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)

1. (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)

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.
2. To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip.
3. To benumb [e.g., cheeks, fingers, nose] by severe cold.
4. To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.
5. To annoy, as by nipping.
6. To taunt.
7. (Scotland, Northern England) To squeeze or pinch.
8. (obsolete, Britain, thieves' cant) To steal; especially to cut a purse.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:steal

9. (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. …"

Translations

Noun

nip (plural nips)

1. A playful bite.

2. A pinch with the nails or teeth.
3. 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.

4. A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching

5. A small cut, or a cutting off the end.
6. (mining) A more or less gradual thinning out of a stratum.
7. A blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost.
8. A biting sarcasm; a taunt.
9. (nautical) A short turn in a rope.
10. (papermaking) The place of intersection where one roll touches another
11. (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)

1. (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)

1. nephew
2. grandson

Derived terms

See also

• mbesë

References

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

nip

1. first-person singular present indicative of nippen
2. imperative of nippen

Anagrams

• pin

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n??i?b/

Verb

nip

1. Alternative spelling of níp

Mutation

English

Etymology

From Middle English skyn, skinn, from Old English scinn, from Old Norse skinn (“animal hide”), from Proto-Germanic *skinþ? (compare Dutch schinde (“bark”), dialectal German Schinde (“fruit peel”)), from Proto-Indo-European *sken- (“to split off”) (compare Breton skant (“scales”), Old Irish ceinn, Irish scainim (“I tear, burst”), Latin scindere (“to split, divide”), Sanskrit ??????? (chinátti, “he splits”)), nasal variant of *skeh?i-d- (“to cut”). Partially displaced native Old English h?d (“skin, hide”), see hide. More at shed.

Pronunciation

• enPR: sk?n, IPA^(key): /sk?n/
• Rhymes: -?n

Noun

skin (countable and uncountable, plural skins)

1. (uncountable) The outer protective layer of the body of any animal, including of a human.

2. (uncountable) The outer protective layer of the fruit of a plant.
3. (countable) The skin and fur of an individual animal used by humans for clothing, upholstery, etc.
4. (countable) A congealed layer on the surface of a liquid.

6. (countable, computing, graphical user interface) A set of resources that modifies the appearance and/or layout of the graphical user interface of a computer program.

7. (countable, video games) An alternate appearance (texture map or geometry) for a character model in a video game.
8. (countable, slang) Rolling paper for cigarettes.

9. (countable, slang) Clipping of skinhead.
10. (Australia) A subgroup of Australian aboriginal people; such divisions are cultural and not related to an individual?s physical skin.
11. (slang) Bare flesh, particularly bare breasts.

12. A vessel made of skin, used for holding liquids.
    • 1843, Richard Henry Horne, Orion

      the Bacchic train,
      Who brought their skins of wine, and loaded poles
      That bent with mighty clusters of black grapes

13. (nautical) That part of a sail, when furled, which remains on the outside and covers the whole.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Totten to this entry?)

14. (nautical) The covering, as of planking or iron plates, outside the framing, forming the sides and bottom of a vessel; the shell; also, a lining inside the framing.
15. A drink of whisky served hot.
16. (slang, Ireland, Britain) person, chap

    He was a decent old skin.

Synonyms

• (outer covering of living tissue): dermis, integument, tegument
• (outer protective layer of a plant or animal): peel (of fruit or vegetable), pericarp
• (skin of an animal used by humans): hide, pelt
• (congealed layer on the surface of a liquid): film
• (subgroup of Australian Aboriginals): moiety, section, subsection

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• cutaneous
• cutis
• dermis
• epidermis

References

• skin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

skin (third-person singular simple present skins, present participle skinning, simple past and past participle skinned)

1. (transitive) To injure the skin of.

   He fell off his bike and skinned his knee on the concrete.

2. (transitive) To remove the skin and/or fur of an animal or a human.
3. (colloquial) To high five.
4. (transitive, computing, colloquial) To apply a skin to (a computer program).

   Can I skin the application to put the picture of my cat on it?

5. (Britain, soccer, transitive) To use tricks to go past a defender.
6. (intransitive) To become covered with skin.

   A wound eventually skins over.

7. (transitive) To cover with skin, or as if with skin; hence, to cover superficially.
8. (US, slang, archaic) To produce, in recitation, examination, etc., the work of another for one's own, or to use cribs, memoranda, etc., which are prohibited.
9. (slang, dated) To strip of money or property; to cheat.

Synonyms

• (injure the skin of): bark, chafe, excoriate, graze, scrape
• (remove the skin of): flay, fleece, flense, scalp

Derived terms

Translations

References

Anagrams

• -kins, Sink, inks, k'ins, kins, sink

Abinomn

Noun

skin

1. star

Cimbrian

Etymology

From Norwegian ski +? -an (infinitive suffix).

Verb

skin

1. (Luserna) to ski

Noun

skin n

1. (Luserna) skiing

References

• “skin” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

Danish

Noun

skin n (singular definite skinnet, not used in plural form)

1. light, glare
2. semblance

Verb

skin

1. imperative of skinne

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

skin m or f (plural skins, diminutive skinnetje n)

1. (computing) Skin
2. Short for skinhead.

Anagrams

• niks, snik

Icelandic

Etymology

From skína (“to shine”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sc??n/
• Rhymes: -??n

  Homophone: skyn

Noun

skin n (genitive singular skins, nominative plural skin)

1. shine, shimmer, brightness

Declension

Derived terms

• sólskin

Anagrams

• sink

Middle English

Noun

skin

1. Alternative form of skyn

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

skin

1. inflection of skina:
   1. present
   2. imperative

Old Saxon

Etymology

From sk?nan.

Noun

sk?n n

1. shine

Portuguese

Noun

skin f (plural skins)

1. (computing) skin (image used as the background of a graphical user interface)
2. (countable, video games) skin (alternate appearance (texture map or geometry) for a 3D character model in a video game)

Swedish

Verb

skin

1. imperative of skina.

Tok Pisin

Etymology

English skin

Noun

skin

1. (anatomy) skin

Derived terms

• skin pas (envelope)

Volapük

Noun

skin (nominative plural skins)

1. skin

Declension

Derived terms