喜樂美語
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    In informal British English, a nipper is a child, especially a small one. A parent might say “the nippers are in bed,” meaning the kids. It sounds friendly, not rude — almost warm. Americans almost never use it this way. Though actually the same spelling has another common life: nippers can mean a small tool for pinching or cutting, like pliers. That is a different meaning. The child meaning is the one here: everyday British talk for a little one.

    小鬼、小毛頭（英式口語）

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組成From nip + -er: the “someone or something that nips” pattern. Nip is “to pinch or bite quickly.”

同家族的字

  • nipnipper is nip plus the ending -er

原始詞典資料18 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Nippername

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    A surname.

nippernoun/ˈnɪpə(ɹ)/

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    One who, or that which, nips.

    • Watt saw the little movements of the stuff, the little bulgings and crumplings, and the sudden indrawings, where it was nipped, between forefinger and thumb probably, for those are the nippers.
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    Any of various devices (as pincers) for nipping.

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    informalA child.

    • Heard what I was saying, and nipped off to the patrols the very next day. Pretty smart for a nipper of seven, eh?
    • No, this is not a creche: nippers should not be running around, fighting under the pool table or generally creating havoc (this applies to dogs, too).
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    A child aged from 5 to 13 in the Australian surf life-saving clubs.

    • SLSA has become a multi-million dollar enterprise comprising 262 clubs located around the Australian coastline, with 100000 members, which included thousands of juniors or ‘nippers’, as they were more commonly known.
    • It is the first day of training for a group of ten ‘little nippers’ (novice surf life-savers). An assortment of children expectantly hover in the clubhouse.
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    historicalA boy working as a navvies' assistant.

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    slangA mosquito.

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    archaicOne of four foreteeth in a horse.

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    obsoleteA satirist.

    • […] ready backbiters, sore nippers, and spiteful reporters privily of good men.
另外 8 個記錄的用法
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    obsoleteslangA pickpocket; a young or petty thief.

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    A fish, the cunner.

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    archaicA European crab (Polybius henslowii).

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    The claws of a crab or lobster.

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    A young bluefish.

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    datedA machine used by a ticket inspector to stamp passengers' tickets.

    • The railway ticket nipper has the identification number of the conductor on it […]
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    One of a pair of automatically locking handcuffs.

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    historicalOne of the gloves or mittens worn by fishermen to protect their hands from cold and abrasion.

    • Suddenly the line flashed through his hand, stinging even through the "nippers," the woolen circlets supposed to protect it.
    • Today, there are new synthetic materials to protect the hands, but until recently, fishermen wore nippers—thick rubber gloves with cotton lining.

nipperverb/ˈnɪpə(ɹ)/

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    nauticaltransportTo seize (two ropes) together.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。