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prickle
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /p??k?l/
Noun
prickle (plural prickles)
- A small, sharp pointed object, such as a thorn.
- The plants that have prickles are, thorns, black and white, briar, rose, lemon-trees, […]
- A tingling sensation of mild discomfort.
- A kind of willow basket.
- Template:RQ:Jonson LP
- I'd but a pottle of sack, like a sharp prickle,
To knock my nose against when I am nodding
- I'd but a pottle of sack, like a sharp prickle,
- Template:RQ:Jonson LP
- (Britain, obsolete) A sieve of hazelnuts, weighing about fifty pounds.
Derived terms
- prickleback
- prickly
Translations
Verb
prickle (third-person singular simple present prickles, present participle prickling, simple past and past participle prickled)
- (intransitive) To feel a prickle.
- (transitive) To cause (someone) to feel a prickle; to prick.
- 2014, J. S. Eades, Promises and Other Broken Things (page 400)
- Guilt prickled me. It was about to get much worse.
- 2014, J. S. Eades, Promises and Other Broken Things (page 400)
Translations
Anagrams
- pickler
German
Pronunciation
Verb
prickle
- inflection of prickeln:
- first-person singular present
- first/third-person singular subjunctive I
- singular imperative
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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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