nip

suomi-englanti sanakirja

nip englannista suomeksi

To catch and enclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon.
(quote-book)
To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip.
To benumb ''e.g.'', cheeks, fingers, nose by severe cold.
To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.
To annoy, as by nipping.
To taunt.
To squeeze or pinch.
To steal; especially to cut a purse.
(quote-book)|url=https://archive.org/stream/musapedestristhr00farmpage/38/mode/1up/|others=verse 4|page=38|passage=The twelfth is a beau-trap, if a cull he does meet, / He nips all his cole, and turns him into the street.

(syn)

He had never expected to fling the soldier, or to be flung by Flea. “One nips or is nipped,” he thought, “and never knows beforehand. …"

(ux)

A pinch with the nails or teeth.
Briskly cold weather.
{{quote-text|en|year=1915|author=Somerset Maugham|W.S. Maugham|title=Of Human Bondage|section=Human Bondage/Chapter CXVIII|chapter 118
A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching
A small cut, or a cutting off the end.
A more or less gradual thinning out of a stratum.
A blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost.
A biting sarcasm; a taunt.
A short turn in a rope.
The place of intersection where one roll touches another
A pickpocket.
A small amount of food or drink, a small amount of liquor.
A nipple, usually of a woman.

(usex)