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Definition of Nipping
1. Adjective. Capable of wounding. "Pungent satire"
2. Adjective. Pleasantly cold and invigorating. "Snappy weather"
Similar to: Cold
Derivative terms: Frost, Frostiness, Nip, Snap, Snap
Definition of Nipping
1. a. Biting; pinching; painful; destructive; as, a nipping frost; a nipping wind.
Definition of Nipping
1. Verb. (present participle of nip) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nipping
1. nip [v] - See also: nip
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nipping
Literary usage of Nipping
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature by Henry Morley, William Hall Griffin (1888)
"nipping Mo- same time as Dunstan. When Dunstan, AD 947, ... He was the zealous
establisher of a nipping monasticism, and a great builder of churches. ..."
2. The Port Folio by Joseph Dennie (1813)
"with the wedding guests, already invited or about to be invited, there comes a
frost, a nipping frost, and the already opening buds of connubial felicity, ..."
3. Cotton Combing Machines by Thomas Thornley (1902)
"At the moment when the first row of needles of the seg- mental comb enters the
freshly introduced tuft last detached the rear nipping jaws have just closed, ..."
4. A Monograph on Privately-illustrated Books: A Plea for Bibliomania by Daniel Melancthon Tredwell (1881)
"... tional temperatures, and hence cannot thrive in the bleak and nipping atmosphere
of science. It required too much artificial warmth, too much hot-house ..."
5. Curran and His Contemporaries by Charles Phillips (1850)
"... sooth to say, Was far the mildest of the day ; For in those regions of the
sky, The goddesses are rather shy To beard the nipping early airs, And, ..."
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