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NipEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text
Clipping of Nipponese, derived from Nippon, from Japanese 日本 (Nippon).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗nipEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
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”)), from Middle Low German knîpen, from Old Saxon *knīpan, from Proto-West Germanic *knīpan, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *knīpaną (“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.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗nipEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
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”).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗nipEnglish (en) · Etymology 3Source text
Clipping of nipple.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗nipEnglish (en) · Etymology 5Source text
Canada 1931.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗nipEnglish (en) · Etymology 6Source text
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
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Chambers (1908)
1908- NipEnglish · e-38699-339
Nip, nip, n. a sip, esp. of spirits—also Nip′per (U.S.).—v.i. to take a dram.—n. Nip′perkin, a small measure of liquor. [Dut. nippen, to sip.]
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Nip, nip, v.t. to pinch: to press between two surfaces: to cut off the edge: to check the growth or vigour of: to destroy: to bite, sting, satirise:—pr.p. nip′ping; pa.t. and pa.p. nipped.—n. a pinch: a seizing or closin
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