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nippingadjective having a low or subnormal temperaturea group of campers waking up to the nipping air of a Rocky Mountain morning algid, arctic, bitter, bone-chilling, chill, chilly, cold, coldish, cool, coolish, freezing, frigid, frosty, gelid, glacial, ice-cold, icy, nippy, numbing, polar, shivery, snappy, wintry(also wintery) cryogenic, subfreezing, subzero, ultracoldcutting, keen, penetrating, piercing, sharpbracing, brisk, crisp, invigorating, rigorouschilled, cooled, frosted, frozen, iced, refrigerated, unheated ardent, blazing, boiling, broiling, burning, fervent, fervid, fiery, glowing, hot, igneous, molten, piping hot, red-hot, roasting, scalding, scorching, searing, seething, sizzling, sultry, sweltering, torrid, ultrahot, warming, white-hot lukewarm, tepidheated, overheated, reheated, warmedsnug, toasty, warmfeverish, flushed, inflamed(also enflamed)canicular, equatorial, muggy, steamy, summery, tropical uncomfortably coolbetter wear a windbreaker if you're going sailing in this nipping wind bitter, bleak, chill, chilling, chilly, nippy, raw, sharp bracing, brisk, crisp, invigorating, rigorous, snappyarctic, cold, coolish, freezing, frigid, frosty, glacial, ice-cold, icy, numbing, polar, shivery, wintry(also wintery)subfreezing, subzerofrore, frosted, frozen, iced, refrigerated, unheated balmy, warmlukewarm, tepidheated, warmed nippingverbpresent participle of nipto make (something) shorter or smaller with the use of a cutting instrumentI'm just going to nip these hedges, and then I'll be done with the work outside bobbing, clipping, cropping, cutting, cutting back, docking, lopping (off), paring, polling, pruning, shaving, shearing, snipping, trimming skiving, whittlingmanicuring, mowingpinching, stumpingcurtailing, shortening elongating, extending, lengthening to squeeze tightly between two surfaces, edges, or pointsthe puppy nipped her hand while playing pinching crimping, tweakingclasping, clutching, grasping, gripping, holding, taking dropping, freeing, loosening, loosing, releasing, springing to take (something) without right and with an intent to keepthat guy nipped my wallet from the restaurant table when I turned away appropriating, boosting(slang), filching, heisting, hooking, lifting, misappropriating, nicking(British slang), pilfering, pinching, pocketing, purloining, ripping off, snitching, stealing, swiping, thieving burglarizing, knocking over, robbinglooting, pillaging, plundering, sackingcarjacking, hijacking(also highjacking)picking, riflingpoaching, rustling, shopliftingcollaring, grabbing, grasping, nailing, seizing, snatching, takingmooching, spongingabducting, kidnapping(also kidnaping), shanghaiing, spiriting making away with, making off with, running off with, walking off with buying, purchasingbestowing, contributing, donating, giving, handing over, presenting to proceed or move quicklyI'll just nip off to the corner store for some milk barreling(or barrelling), belting, blasting, blazing, blowing, bolting, bombing(slang), bowling, breezing, bundling, bustling, buzzing, cannonballing, careening, careering, chasing, coursing, cracking (on), dashing, driving, flying, haring, hastening, highballing, hotfooting (it), humping, hurling, hurrying, hurtling, hustling, hying(or hieing), jetting, jumping, motoring, pelting, racing, ramming, ripping, rocketing, running, rushing, rustling, scooting, scurrying, scuttling, shooting, speeding, stepping, tearing, traveling(or travelling), trotting, whirling, whisking, zipping, zooming beetling, darting, flitting, scampering, scudding, scufflingstampeding, streaking, whizzinggalloping, jogging, sprintingaccelerating, quickening, stepping outcatching up, fast-forwarding, outpacing, outrunning, outstripping, overtakingarrowing, beelining beating it, getting a move on, making tracks, shaking a leg, stepping on it crawling, creeping, poking dallying, dawdling, dillydallying, dragging, hanging (around or out), lagging, lingering, loitering, poking, tarryingambling, lumbering, plodding, sauntering, shuffling, strollingdecelerating, slowing (down or up) in 1547 |