Nipped vs Sipped - What's the difference?
nipped | sipped |
(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.
(sip)
To drink slowly, small mouthfuls at a time.
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* (John Dryden)
To taste the liquor of; to drink out of.
* (John Dryden)
(Scotland, US, dated)
(Webster 1913)
As verbs the difference between nipped and sipped
is that nipped is past tense of nip while sipped is past tense of sip.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?
Anagrams
* * ----sipped
English
Verb
(head)sip
English
Verb
- He held out to me a bowl of steaming broth, that filled the room with a savour sweeter, ten thousand times, to me than every rose and lily of the world; yet would not let me drink it at a gulp, but made me sip it with a spoon like any baby.
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- [She] raised it to her mouth with sober grace; / Then, sipping , offered to the next in place.
- They skim the floods, and sip the purple flowers.