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Smarting vs Nipping - What's the difference?

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Smarting is a related term of nipping.


As verbs the difference between smarting and nipping

is that smarting is while nipping is .

As nouns the difference between smarting and nipping

is that smarting is a sensation that smarts or stings while nipping is the act or sensation of giving a nip.

As an adjective smarting

is painful, sore.

smarting

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Painful, sore.
    • My arm is still smarting from where the ball hit it.
  • (figuratively) Experiencing emotional pain or embarrassment.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sensation that smarts or stings.
  • * (Thomas Halyburton)
    • Strong they are; for they trample upon our light, the penalties of laws divine and human; yea, and the smartings of our own conscience.

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    nipping

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or sensation of giving a nip.
  • * 1789 , Memoirs of the Medical Society of London
    • 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.
  • * 1999 , Guy Murchie, The Seven Mysteries of Life
    • 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.