Nipping

Quick meaning: Nipping is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of nip.

Meaning

present participle and gerund of nip.

More Meanings

1. The act or sensation of giving a nip.

Example Sentences

Being, however, satisfied as to the position, I withdrew my hand, the pains still growing less frequent and weaker, but she lamented greatly the nippings and pinchings in her belly, which rather increased as the true labour pains decreased.

Elephants may seem clumsy, but they not only are highly sophisticated in courtship, with large repertoires of provocative gestures, proddings, nippings and subtle erotic teasings with the trunk, but sometimes they complete actual copulation within 18 seconds.

Tickets are supposed to be nipped when passengers enter a platform, and if this could always be done the fraud could hardly take place; but the suburban rush is so great that the nipping of all tickets is impossible and a large number of unnipped tickets are always collected at destination.

Word Forms

• nippings

Synonyms for nipping

Depending on context, synonyms include cold, crisp, sarcastic, pungent, nippy, parky.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include nippy, biting, crisp, pungent, snappy, sarcastic.

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