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nipping at

nipping at is the present participle and gerund of nip at.

Meaning of nip at

Verb

nip at (third-person singular simple present nips at, present participle nipping at, simple past and past participle nipped at)

  1. To bite or pinch with small actions.
  2. To be cold; to be bitingly cold.
  3. (idiomatic) To sip a drink (usually alcoholic) in small amounts.

Questions about nipping at

What is nipping at the present participle and gerund of?
Nipping at is the present participle and gerund of nip at.

Words near nipping at in the dictionary

  1. nippies
  2. nippiest
  3. nippily
  4. nippiness
  5. nipping
  6. nipping at
  7. nipping in the bud
  8. nipping in the butt
  9. nippingly
  10. nippings
  11. nippit

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nipping at (page history and authors); nip at (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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