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Yipping vs Nipping - What's the difference?

yipping | nipping |

As verbs the difference between yipping and nipping

is that yipping is present participle of yip while nipping is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between yipping and nipping

is that yipping is a sound that yips while nipping is the act or sensation of giving a nip.

yipping

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sound that yips.

    • 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.