Gypped vs Nipped - What's the difference?
gypped | nipped |
(gyp)
(pejorative, sometimes, offensive) A cheat or swindle; a rip-off.
(pejorative, sometimes, offensive) To cheat or swindle someone of something inappropriately.
A college servant.
The room in which such college servants work.
A small kitchen for use by college students.
(nip)
A small quantity of something edible or a potable liquor.
To catch and enclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon.
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To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip.
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To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.
To vex or pain, as by nipping; hence, to taunt.
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A playful bite.
A pinch with the nails or teeth.
Briskly cold weather.
* 1915 , :
A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching; as, in the northern seas, the nip of masses of ice.
A small cut, or a cutting off the end.
A blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost.
A biting sarcasm; a taunt.
(nautical) A short turn in a rope. Nip and tuck, a phrase signifying equality in a contest. [Low, U.S.]
The place of intersection where one roll touches another in papermaking.
A pickpocket.
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To make a quick, short journey or errand; usually roundtrip.
As verbs the difference between gypped and nipped
is that gypped is (gyp) while nipped is (nip).gypped
English
Verb
(head)gyp
English
Etymology 1
Probably from the termAlternative forms
* gip, jip (eye dialect spellings)Noun
(en noun)- Why do we have to buy this new edition of the textbook when there’s almost no difference between it and the previous one? What a gyp !
Usage notes
Because this term is often considered to derive from the problematic exonymic term Gypsy'' and represent a racist stereotype of the Romani, it may be offensive. See the usage note about ''gypsy .Verb
(gypp)- The cab driver gypped me out of ten bucks by taking the longer route.
- You better watch out; they'll try to gyp you if you don't know what you're doing.
Usage notes
See the notes about the noun, above.See also
* jew down * welshReferences
*Gyp: Thieve, World Wide Words *
Etymology of "Gyp" / "gypped", Vocaboly.com
Etymology 2
Perhaps the same as Etymology 1.Noun
(en noun)Etymology 3
Shortening.Etymology 4
Perhaps from gee up .nipped
English
Verb
(head)nip
English
(Webster 1913)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- I’ll just take a nip of that cake.
- He had a nip of whiskey.
Synonyms
* nibble (of food) * See alsoEtymology 2
Diminutive of nipple .Etymology 3
Probably from a form of (etyl) nipen. Cognate with (etyl) ; (etyl) knebti.Verb
(nipp)Noun
(en noun)- The puppy gave his owner’s finger a nip .
- There is a nip''' in the air. It is '''nippy outside.
- The day had only just broken, and there was a nip in the air; but the sky was cloudless, and the sun was shining yellow.
Derived terms
* nip and tuck * nip in the budEtymology 4
Verb
(nipp)- Why don’t you nip down to the grocer’s for some milk?