The small shoots ... must be nipt off. — John Mortimer The Whole Art of Husbandry .
And sharp remorse his heart did prick and nip. — Edmund Spenser.
The puppy gave his owner’s finger a nip.
May this hard earth cleave to the Nadir hell, Down, down, and close again, and nip me flat, If I be such a traitress. — Alfred Tennyson.
A novice nip, newly arrived in London, went one afternoon to the Red Bull in Bishopsgate, an inn converted to a playhouse.
He had a nip of whiskey.
There is a nip in the air. It is nippy outside.
If you see a bad habit begin to develop, try to nip it in the bud so that it does not become ingrained.
The police nipped the plot in the bud. The teacher nipped the disorder in the bud.
She'll be back in a minute- she's just NIPPED OUT to the shops.
She'll be back in a minute- she's just NIPPED OUT to the shops.