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Definition of Nipper
1. Noun. A young person of either sex. "`tiddler' is a British term for youngster"
Terms within: Child's Body
Generic synonyms: Juvenile, Juvenile Person
Specialized synonyms: Bairn, Buster, Changeling, Child Prodigy, Infant Prodigy, Wonder Child, Foster Child, Foster-child, Fosterling, Imp, Monkey, Rapscallion, Rascal, Scalawag, Scallywag, Scamp, Kiddy, Orphan, Peanut, Picaninny, Piccaninny, Pickaninny, Poster Child, Kindergartener, Kindergartner, Preschooler, Silly, Sprog, Bambino, Toddler, Tot, Yearling, Urchin, Street Child, Waif
Derivative terms: Childhood, Childhood, Childly
2. Noun. A grasping structure on the limb of a crustacean or other arthropods.
Group relationships: Crustacean
Generic synonyms: Appendage, Extremity, Member
Derivative terms: Claw, Nip
Definition of Nipper
1. n. One who, or that which, nips.
Definition of Nipper
1. Noun. One who, or that which, nips. ¹
2. Noun. (context: usually plural) Any of various devices (as pincers) for nipping. ¹
3. Noun. (slang) A child. ¹
4. Noun. (AU) A child aged 5 - 13 in the Australian surf life-saving clubs. ¹
5. Noun. (Canada slang Newfoundland) A mosquito. ¹
6. Noun. One of four foreteeth in a horse. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nipper
1. one that nips [n -S] - See also: nips
Medical Definition of Nipper
1.
1. One who, or that which, nips.
2. A fore tooth of a horse. The nippers are four in number.
3. A satirist.
4. A pickpocket; a young or petty thief.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Nipper
Literary usage of Nipper
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dombey and Son. by Charles Dickens, Hablot Knight Browne (1848)
"I have seen," said Susan nipper, " Miss Floy strive and strive when nothing but a
... I can not bear to hear it," said Susan nipper, wiping her black eyes, ..."
2. Transactions of the National Association of Cotton Manufacturers by National Association of Cotton Manufacturers, New England Cotton Manufacturers' Association (1902)
"the gauge the nipper cannot be made to touch the needles, no matter how far it
... The bottom nipper plate is fastened to a transverse bridge piece on the ..."
3. Musa Pedestris: Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes (1536-1896) by John Stephen Farmer (1896)
"I'm just about the proudest man that walks, child I've got a little nipper,
when 'e talks shillings; pound I'M lay yer forty shiners to a quid You'll take ..."
4. "Over There" with the Australians by R. Hugh Knyvett (1918)
"CHAPTER XI "nipper" ON the sheep and cattle station of Wyaga in ... Again about
midnight he was roused, this time by the whining of the sheep-dog "nipper. ..."
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