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tingle
English
Etymology
From Middle English tinglen, a variant of tinclen (“to tinkle”). More at tinkle.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?t????l/
- Rhymes: -????l
Verb
tingle (third-person singular simple present tingles, present participle tingling, simple past and past participle tingled)
- (intransitive) To feel a prickling or mildly stinging sensation.
- 1913, Eleanor Porter, Pollyanna, Chapter 8:
- For five minutes Pollyanna worked swiftly, deftly, combing a refractory curl into fluffiness, perking up a drooping ruffle at the neck, or shaking a pillow into plumpness so that the head might have a better pose. Meanwhile the sick woman, frowning prodigiously, and openly scoffing at the whole procedure, was, in spite of herself, beginning to tingle with a feeling perilously near to excitement.
- 1913, Eleanor Porter, Pollyanna, Chapter 8:
- (transitive) To cause to feel a prickling or mildly stinging sensation.
- (intransitive) To ring, to tinkle.
- (transitive) To cause to ring, to tinkle.
- 1874, Lewis Carroll, The Hunting of the Snark, fit 2:
- […] the Captain they trusted so well
- Had only one notion for crossing the ocean,
- And that was to tingle his bell.
- 1874, Lewis Carroll, The Hunting of the Snark, fit 2:
- (intransitive) To make ringing sounds; to twang.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 13
- Sideways leaning, we sideways darted; every ropeyarn tingling like a wire; the two tall masts buckling like Indian canes in land tornadoes.
- June 9, 1860, Charles Dickens, All the Year Round
- sharp tingling bells
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 13
Synonyms
- (to feel a prickly sensation): itch
- (to ring, cause to ring): tinkle
Derived terms
- tingly
Translations
Noun
tingle (plural tingles)
- A prickling or mildly stinging sensation.
Translations
Anagrams
- Etling, elting, linget, niglet
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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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