nipping

Speech parts

1. nipping - Noun

2. nipping - Adjective

3. nipping - Verb

Derived from nip

5. nipping - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Nip

Biting; pinching; painful; destructive; as, a nipping frost; a nipping wind.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

barbed biting crisp pungent frosty snappy nippy mordacious siberian arctic nipper stone-cold cold sharp cutting
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Antonyms

blazing hot warm heated boiling humid
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Phrases with the word

nipping off eyes

Examples

I am never at my best in the early morning, especially a cold morning in the Yorkshire spring with a piercing March wind sweeping down from the fells, finding its way inside my clothing, nipping at my nose and ears. James Herriot

When your mama was the geek, my dreamlets," Papa would say, "she made the nipping off of noggins such a crystal mystery that the hens themselves yearned toward her, waltzing around her, hypnotized with longing. Katherine Dunn

You've been nipping at cook's wine!! Tamora Pierce

a barbed compliment Source: Internet

a biting aphorism Source: Internet

pungent satire Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

nippiest nippily nippiness nipping off eyes nippingly nippit