different between nipper vs pipper

English

Etymology

nip +? -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?p?(?)/
• Rhymes: -?p?(?)

Noun

nipper (plural nippers)

1. One who, or that which, nips.
2. (usually in the plural) Any of various devices (as pincers) for nipping.
3. (slang) A child.
   • 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, p. 193. ?ISBN

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

4. (Australia) A child aged from 5 to 13 in the Australian surf life-saving clubs.
   • 2003 Some Like It Hot: The Beach As a Cultural Dimension

     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.

   • 2008, Tania Cassidy, Robyn L. Jones, Paul Potrac, Understanding Sports Coaching: The Social, Cultural and Pedagogical Foundations of Coaching Practice

     It is the first day of training for a group of ten 'little nippers' (novice surf life-savers). An assortment of children expectantly hover in the clubhouse.

   • 2009, Didgeridoos and Didgeridon'ts: A Brit 's Guide to Moving Your Life Down Under

     Every club around Australia offers a Nippers programme. Nippers is open to children from the age of 5 through to 13 years old […]

   • October 6, 2011, [1]

     The Nippers program, for children aged five to thirteen, promotes water safety skills and confidence in a safe beach environment

   • September 5, 2013, Eve Jeffery, "Nippers season begins on the north coast", in Echonetdaily

     Of our movement’s 153,000 members, over 58,500 are nippers (5-13 years). This equates to nearly 40% of our total membership and shows just how significant the junior movement is within surf lifesaving.

5. (historical) A boy working as a navvies' assistant.
6. (Canada, slang, Newfoundland) A mosquito.
7. One of four foreteeth in a horse.
8. (obsolete) A satirist.
   • 1570, Roger Ascham, The Schoolmaster

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

9. (obsolete, slang) A pickpocket; a young or petty thief.
10. A fish, the cunner.
11. A European crab (Polybius henslowii).
12. The claws of a crab or lobster.
13. A young bluefish.
14. (dated) A machine used by a ticket inspector to stamp passengers' tickets.
    • 1908, Transport World (volume 24, page 319)

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

15. One of a pair of automatically locking handcuffs.

Synonyms

• (pickpocket): see Thesaurus:pickpocket

Translations

Verb

nipper (third-person singular simple present nippers, present participle nippering, simple past and past participle nippered)

1. (nautical, transitive) To seize (two ropes) together.

English

Etymology 1

PIP +? -er

Noun

pipper (plural pippers)

1. (military, slang) A marker indicating the PIP (predicted impact point) on a head-up display.

Etymology 2

pip +? -er

Noun

pipper (plural pippers)

1. (military, slang, in combination) A person wearing the specific number of stars on the shoulder of their uniform, implying a particular rank.
   • 1918, The Tatler (volume 67, page 306)

     Our caricaturist, Lieutenant Fred May, has this week specialised in “three pippers,” as all of the officers in the above collection, have attained to captain's rank, and have all, so we understand, been “through it" […]

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Etymology

From Middle English peper, from Old English pipor.

Noun

pipper

1. pepper

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN