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Nipper   Listen
noun
Nipper  n.  
1.
One who, or that which, nips.
2.
A fore tooth of a horse. The nippers are four in number.
3.
A satirist. (Obs.)
4.
A pickpocket; a young or petty thief. (Old Cant)
5.
(Zool.)
(a)
The cunner.
(b)
A European crab (Polybius Henslowii).






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Nipper" Quotes from Famous Books



... never got hold of them much while I was just edging alongside. I think some people grasp hands the better for a little space to reach across. You mayn't be born quite in the purple, as Susan Nipper would say, but it isn't any reason you should try to pinch yourself black and blue. I've got all over it, and I like the russet a great deal better. ...
— The Other Girls • Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney

... she had the nicest little boy I ever knew, a little fellow of five, or six it might be, and we got on splendid. The amount of their lingo that kid taught me—'We, we' and 'Bong swot' and 'Commong voo potty we' and all—and I taught him English. You should have heard that nipper say ''Arf a mo', old ...
— The Angels of Mons • Arthur Machen



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