Definitions

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  • adjective Ulster tight-fitting

Etymologies

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From Scots nip ("to pinch").

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Examples

  • "A fuggin' bitch to nippit inda bud," slurred a staggered gardener, with lopsiding chops.

    Ghazal Of The Calcium Channel Blockade Dennis Mahagin 2011

  • "It would hae nippit ma hand clean off if you hadna beheided it sae quick," said the sufferer gratefully to

    Adventures in Many Lands Various

  • I think he thocht he was brunt, for he nippit up the water bottle, an 'took a sweech o' cauld watter, an 'then gae a pech like's he'd come ooten a fit.

    My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

  • "A 'admit that England micht hae dune the job; it's no cannie stravagin' yon wy frae place tae place, but Drums never complained tae me as if he hed been nippit in the Sooth."

    Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush Ian Maclaren 1878

  • "A 'admit that England micht hae dune the job; it's no canny stravagin' yon wy frae place tae place, but Drums never complained tae me as if he hed been nippit in the Sooth."

    Stories by English Authors: Scotland (Selected by Scribners) Various 1878

  • "A 'admit that England micht hae dune the job; it's no cannie stravagin' yon wy frae place tae place, but Drums never complained tae me if he hed been nippit in the Sooth."

    A Doctor of the Old School — Complete Ian Maclaren 1878

  • "A 'admit that England micht hae dune the job; it's no cannie stravagin' yon wy frae place tae place, but Drums never complained tae me if he hed been nippit in the Sooth."

    A Doctor of the Old School — Volume 1 Ian Maclaren 1878

  • His warl ', luikin' oot o 'the e'en He gae me, wi' the han's an 'feet He gae me, I wad jist deserve to be nippit oot at ance, or sent intil the ooter mirk (_darkness_)! "

    The Elect Lady George MacDonald 1864

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  • Scots - very cold.

    December 5, 2007