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nipperkins

nipperkins is the plural of nipperkin.

Meaning of nipperkin

Noun

nipperkin (plural nipperkins)

  1. (archaic) A small cup or other vessel, of perhaps 1/8 pint in volume.
  2. (archaic) A small amount of beer, wine, or other liquid, of perhaps 1/8 pint in volume.
    • [L]et Tim send the ale and the sack, and the nipperkin of double-distilled, with a bit of diet-loaf, or some such trinket, and score it to the new comer.1822 May 29, [Walter Scott], chapter XII, in The Fortunes of Nigel. […], volume II (in English), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson...

Questions about nipperkins

What is nipperkins the plural of?
Nipperkins is the plural of nipperkin.

Words near nipperkins in the dictionary

  1. nipper
  2. Nipper's Harbour
  3. nippered
  4. nippering
  5. nipperkin
  6. nipperkins
  7. nippers
  8. Nippes
  9. nippeth
  10. nippie
  11. nippier

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