Synonyms of the word

nip

• n. A small quantity of something edible or a potable liquor.
• n. (vulgar) A nipple, usually of a woman.
• v. To catch and enclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or…
• v. To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip.
• v. To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.
• v. To annoy, as by nipping.
• v. To taunt.
• v. (Scotland, Northern England) To squeeze or pinch.
• n. A playful bite.
• n. A pinch with the nails or teeth.
• n. Briskly cold weather.
• n. A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching.
• n. A small cut, or a cutting off the end.
• n. A blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost.
• n. A biting sarcasm; a taunt.
• n. (nautical) A short turn in a rope.
• n. (papermaking) The place of intersection where one roll touches another.
• n. (historical slang) A pickpocket.
• v. To make a quick, short journey or errand, usually a round trip.

bite

• v. (transitive) To cut off a piece by clamping the teeth.
• v. (transitive) To hold something by clamping one's teeth.
• v. (intransitive) To attack with the teeth.
• v. (intransitive) To behave aggressively; to reject advances.
• v. (intransitive) To take hold; to establish firm contact with.
• v. (intransitive) To have significant effect, often negative.
• v. (intransitive, of a fish) To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some…
• v. (intransitive, transitive, of an insect) To sting.
• v. (intransitive) To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be…
• v. (transitive) To cause sharp pain, or smarting, to; to hurt or injure, in a literal or a figurative sense.
• v. (intransitive) To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so…
• v. (intransitive) To take or keep a firm hold.
• v. (transitive) To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck.
• v. (transitive, informal, vulgar) To perform oral sex on. Used in invective.
• v. (intransitive, African American Vernacular, slang) To plagiarize, to imitate.
• n. The act of biting.
• n. The wound left behind after having been bitten.
• n. The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting.
• n. A piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting; a mouthful.
• n. (slang) Something unpleasant.
• n. (slang) An act of plagiarism.
• n. A small meal or snack.
• n. (figuratively) aggression.
• n. The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of…
• n. (colloquial, dated) A cheat; a trick; a fraud.
• n. (colloquial, dated, slang) A sharper; one who cheats.
• n. (printing) A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else,…

chilliness

• n. The state or sensation of being chilly; a disagreeable sensation of coldness.

chomp

• n. The act of chomping (see below).
• v. (intransitive) To bite or chew loudly or heavily.
• v. (computing, transitive, Perl) To remove the final character from (a text string) if it is a newline (or,…

clip

• v. To grip tightly.
• v. To fasten with a clip.
• v. (archaic) To hug, embrace.
• v. (slang) To collect signatures, generally with the use of a clipboard.
• n. Something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.
• n. An unspecified but normally understood as rapid speed or pace.
• n. (obsolete) An embrace.
• n. A frame containing a number of bullets which is intended to be inserted into the magazine of a firearm…
• n. A projecting flange on the upper edge of a horseshoe, turned up so as to embrace the lower part of the…
• n. (fishing, Britain, Scotland) A gaff or hook for landing the fish, as in salmon fishing.
• v. To cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.
• v. To curtail; to cut short.
• v. (dialectal, informal) To strike with the hand.
• v. (American football) An illegal tackle: Throwing the body across the back of an opponent's leg or hitting…
• v. (signal processing) To cut off a signal level at a certain maximum value.
• v. (computer graphics) To discard (an occluded part of a model or scene) rather than waste resources on rendering…
• v. To cheat, swindle, or fleece.
• n. Something which has been clipped from a larger whole.
• n. An act of clipping, such as a haircut.
• n. (uncountable, Geordie) The condition of something, its state.
• n. (informal) A blow with the hand.

clipping

• v. present participle of clip.
• n. (countable) A piece of something removed by clipping.
• n. (countable) An article clipped from a newspaper.
• n. (countable, linguistics) A short form (of a word).
• n. (uncountable, signal processing) The process of cutting off a signal level that rises above a certain…
• n. (uncountable, computer graphics) The use of a mask to hide part of an object or image.
• n. (uncountable, American football) Falling, rolling, or throwing one's body on the back of an opponent's…

cold

• adj. (of a thing) Having a low temperature.
• adj. (of the weather) Causing the air to be cold.
• adj. (of a person or animal) Feeling the sensation of coldness, especially to the point of discomfort.
• adj. Unfriendly, emotionally distant or unfeeling.
• adj. Dispassionate, not prejudiced or partisan, impartial.
• adj. Completely unprepared; without introduction.
• adj. Unconscious or deeply asleep; deprived of the metaphorical heat associated with life or consciousness.
• adj. (usually with "have" or "know" transitively) Perfectly, exactly, completely; by heart.
• adj. (usually with "have" transitively) Cornered, done for.
• adj. (obsolete) Not pungent or acrid.
• adj. (obsolete) Unexciting; dull; uninteresting.
• adj. Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) only feebly; having lost its odour.
• adj. (obsolete) Not sensitive; not acute.
• adj. Distant; said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed. Compare…
• adj. (painting) Having a bluish effect; not warm in colour.
• n. A condition of low temperature.
• n. (medicine) A common, usually harmless, viral illness, usually with congestion of the nasal passages and…
• adv. While at low temperature.
• adv. Without preparation.
• adv. With finality.
• adv. (slang, informal, dated) In a cold, frank, or realistically honest manner.

coldness

• n. The relative lack of heat.
• n. The sensation resulting from exposure to low temperatures.
• n. Limited enthusiasm or affection; coolness.
• n. (physics) The reciprocal of absolute temperature.

coolness

• n. (uncountable) The state of being cool, as in chilly.
• n. (countable) The result or product of being cool, as in chilly.
• n. (slang, uncountable) The state of being cool, as in good or pleasing.
• n. (slang, countable) The result or product of being cool, as in good or pleasing.

cut

• adj. (participial adjective) Having been cut.
• adj. Reduced.
• adj. Omitted from a literary or musical work.
• adj. (of a gem) Carved into a shape; not raw.
• adj. (cricket, of a shot) Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.
• adj. (bodybuilding) Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among…
• adj. (informal) Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation.
• adj. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Emotionally hurt.
• adj. Eliminated from consideration during a recruitment drive.
• adj. Removed from a team roster.
• adj. (New Zealand) Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol.
• n. An opening resulting from cutting.
• n. The act of cutting.
• n. The result of cutting.
• n. A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove.
• n. (specifically) An artificial navigation as distingished from a navigable river.
• n. A share or portion.
• n. (cricket) A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point.
• n. (cricket) Sideways movement of the ball through the air caused by a fast bowler imparting spin to the…
• n. (sports) In lawn tennis, etc., a slanting stroke causing the ball to spin and bound irregularly; also,…
• n. (golf) In a strokeplay competition, the early elimination of those players who have not then attained…
• n. (theater) A passage omitted or to be omitted from a play.
• n. (film) A particular version or edit of a film.
• n. The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards.
• n. The manner or style a garment etc. is fashioned in.
• n. A slab, especially of meat.
• n. (fencing) An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point.
• n. A deliberate snub, typically a refusal to return a bow or other acknowledgement of acquaintance.
• n. A definable part, such as an individual song, of a recording, particularly of commercial records, audio…
• n. (archaeology) A truncation, a context that represents a moment in time when other archaeological deposits…
• n. A haircut.
• n. (graph theory) The partition of a graph’s vertices into two subgroups.
• n. A string of railway cars coupled together.
• n. An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving.
• n. (obsolete) A common workhorse; a gelding.
• n. (slang, dated) The failure of a college officer or student to be present at any appointed exercise.
• n. A skein of yarn.
• v. (heading, transitive) To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
• v. (intransitive) To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
• v. (transitive, heading, social) To separate, remove, reject or reduce.
• v. (intransitive, film, audio, usually as imperative) To cease recording activities.
• v. (transitive, film) To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage.
• v. (transitive, computing) To remove and place in memory for later use.
• v. (intransitive) To enter a queue in the wrong place.
• v. (intransitive) To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.
• v. (transitive, cricket) To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball…
• v. (transitive, cricket) To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.
• v. (intransitive) To change direction suddenly.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To divide a pack of playing cards into two.
• v. (transitive, slang) To write.
• v. (transitive, slang) To dilute or adulterate a recreational drug.
• v. (transitive) To exhibit (a quality).
• v. (transitive) To stop or disengage.
• v. (sports) To drive (a ball) to one side, as by (in billiards or croquet) hitting it fine with another ball,…

flavor

• n. American standard spelling of flavour.
• v. American standard spelling of flavour.

flavour

• n. The quality produced by the sensation of taste or, especially, of taste and smell in combined effect.
• n. A substance used to produce a taste. Flavouring.
• n. A variety (of taste) attributed to an object.
• n. The characteristic quality of something.
• n. (informal) A kind or type.
• n. (physics) One of the six types of quarks (top, bottom, strange, charmed, up, and down) or three types…
• n. (archaic) The quality produced by the sensation of smell; odour; fragrance.
• v. (transitive) To add flavouring to something.

frigidity

• n. The state of being frigid; coldness; lack of heat.
• n. Coldness of feeling, manner or quality; lack of ardor, animation or vivacity; chilliness; dullness.
• n. Want of natural heat and vigor of body; impotency.

frigidness

• n. The state of being frigid; frigidity; coldness.

grip

• v. (transitive) To take hold of, particularly with the hand.
• v. (transitive) To help or assist, particularly in an emotional sense.
• v. (intransitive) To do something with another that makes you happy/gives you relief.
• v. To trench; to drain.
• n. A hold or way of holding, particularly with the hand.
• n. A handle or other place to grip.
• n. (computing, graphical user interface) A visual component on a window etc. enabling it to be resized and/or…
• n. (film production) A person responsible for handling equipment on the set.
• n. A channel cut through a grass verge (especially for the purpose of draining water away from the highway).
• n. (chiefly Southern California slang) A lot of something.
• n. Archaic spelling of grippe: Influenza, flu.
• n. (archaic) A small travelling-bag or gripsack.
• n. An apparatus attached to a car for clutching a traction cable.
• n. Assistance; help or encouragement.
• n. A helpful, interesting, admirable, or inspiring person.
• n. (slang) As much as one can hold in a hand; a handful.
• n. (figuratively) A tenacious grasp; a holding fast.
• n. A device for grasping or holding fast to something.
• n. (dialectal) A small ditch or trench; a channel to carry off water or other liquid; a drain.
• n. (obsolete) The griffin.

pinch

• v. To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
• v. To squeeze between the thumb and forefinger.
• v. To squeeze between two objects.
• v. To steal, usually of something almost trivial or inconsequential.
• v. (slang) To arrest or capture.
• v. (horticulture) To cut shoots or buds of a plant in order to shape the plant, or to improve its yield.
• v. (nautical) To sail so close-hauled that the sails begin to flutter.
• v. (hunting) To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.
• v. (obsolete) To be niggardly or covetous.
• v. To seize; to grip; to bite; said of animals.
• v. (figuratively) To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve.
• v. To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch.
• v. (obsolete) To complain or find fault.
• n. The action of squeezing a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
• n. A small amount of powder or granules, such that the amount could be held between fingertip and thumb tip.
• n. An awkward situation of some kind (especially money or social) which is difficult to escape.
• n. An organic herbal smoke additive.

piquance

• n. piquancy; having a piquant taste.

piquancy

• n. The degree to which something is piquant, stimulating or exciting.

piquantness

• n. The quality of being piquant.

relish

• n. A pleasing taste; flavor that gratifies the palate; hence, enjoyable quality; power of pleasing.
• n. Savor; quality; characteristic tinge.
• n. A taste for; liking; appetite; fondness.
• n. That which is used to impart a flavor; specifically, something taken with food to render it more palatable…
• n. A cooked or pickled sauce, usually made with vegetables or fruits, generally used as a condiment.
• n. In a wooden frame, the projection or shoulder at the side of, or around, a tenon, on a tenoned piece.
• n. Something that is greatly liked or savoured.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To taste; to have a specified taste or flavour.
• v. (transitive) To give a relish to; to cause to taste agreeable, to make appetizing.
• v. (transitive) To taste or eat with pleasure, to like the flavor of.
• v. (transitive) to take great pleasure in.
• v. (transitive) to look forward to.

sapidity

• n. The property of being sapid; tastiness.

savor

• n. the specific taste or smell of something.
• n. a distinctive sensation.
• v. to possess a particular taste or smell, or a distinctive quality.
• v. to appreciate, enjoy or relish something.

savour

• n. The specific taste or smell of something.
• n. A distinctive sensation.
• n. Sense of smell; power to scent, or trace by scent.
• v. (intransitive) to possess a particular taste or smell, or a distinctive quality.
• v. (transitive) to appreciate, enjoy or relish something.

shot

• adj. (colloquial) Worn out or broken.
• adj. (of material, especially silk) Woven from warp and weft strands of different colours, resulting in an…
• adj. Tired, weary.
• adj. Discharged, cleared, or rid of something.
• n. The result of launching a projectile or bullet.
• n. (sports) The act of launching a ball or similar object toward a goal.
• n. (athletics) The heavy iron ball used for the shot put.
• n. (uncountable) Small metal balls used as ammunition.
• n. (uncountable, military) Metal balls (or similar) used as ammunition; not necessarily small.
• n. (referring to one's skill at firing a gun) Someone who shoots (a gun) regularly.
• n. An opportunity or attempt.
• n. A remark or comment, especially one which is critical or insulting.
• n. (slang, sports, US) A punch or other physical blow.
• n. A measure of alcohol, usually spirits, as taken either from a shot-glass or directly from the bottle,…
• n. A single serving of espresso.
• n. (photography, film) A single unbroken sequence of photographic film exposures, or the digital equivalent;…
• n. A vaccination or injection.
• n. (US, Canada, baseball, informal) A home run that scores one, two, or three runs (a four run home run is…
• n. (US federal prison system) Written documentation of a behavior infraction.
• n. (fisheries) A cast of one or more nets.
• n. (fisheries) A place or spot for setting nets.
• n. (fisheries) A single draft or catch of fish made.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of shoot.
• v. (transitive) To load (a gun) with shot.
• n. A charge to be paid, a scot or shout.
• interj. (colloquial, South Africa) Thank you.

smack

• n. A distinct flavor, especially if slight.
• n. A slight trace of something; a smattering.
• n. (slang) Heroin.
• v. (intransitive) To indicate or suggest something; used with of.
• v. (intransitive) To have a particular taste; used with of.
• n. A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade and…
• n. A sharp blow; a slap. See also: spank.
• n. A loud kiss.
• n. A quick, sharp noise, as of the lips when suddenly separated, or of a whip.
• v. To slap someone, or to make a smacking sound.
• v. (New Zealand) To strike a child (usually on the buttocks) as a form of discipline. (US spank).
• v. To wetly separate the lips, making a noise, after tasting something or in expectation of a treat.
• v. To kiss with a close compression of the lips, so as to make a sound when they separate.
• adv. As if with a smack or slap.

snip

• v. To cut with short sharp actions, as with scissors.
• v. To reduce the price of a product, to create a snip.
• v. To break off; to snatch away.
• v. (informal) To circumcise.
• v. (Internet) To remove the irrelevant parts of quotations in the reply message.
• n. The act of snipping; cutting a small amount off of something.
• n. A single cut with scissors, clippers, or similar tool.
• n. Something acquired for a low price; a bargain.
• n. A small amount of something; a pinch.
• n. (definite, the snip, euphemistic) A vasectomy.
• n. A small or weak person, especially a young one.
• n. (dated) An impertinent or mischievous person.
• n. (obsolete) A share or portion; a snack.
• n. (obsolete, slang) A tailor.

spice

• n. (countable, uncountable) Plant matter (usually dried) used to season or flavour food.
• n. (figuratively, uncountable) Appeal, interest; an attribute that makes something appealing, interesting,…
• n. (uncountable, Yorkshire) Sweets, candy.
• n. (obsolete) Species; kind.
• v. (transitive) To add spice or spices to.
• n. (nonce word) plural of spouse.

spicery

• n. Spices, in general.
• n. (archaic) A repository of spices.

spiciness

• n. The property of being spicy.

squeeze

• v. (transitive) To apply pressure to from two or more sides at once.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To fit into a tight place.
• v. (transitive) To remove something with difficulty, or apparent difficulty.
• v. (transitive) To put in a difficult position by presenting two or more choices.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To oppress with hardships, burdens, or taxes; to harass.
• v. (transitive, baseball) To attempt to score a runner from third by bunting.
• n. A close or tight fit.
• n. (figuratively) A difficult position.
• n. A hug or other affectionate grasp.
• n. (slang) A romantic partner.
• n. (slang) An illicit alcoholic drink made by squeezing Sterno through cheesecloth, etc., and mixing the…
• n. (baseball) The act of bunting in an attempt to score a runner from third.
• n. (card games) A play that forces an opponent to discard a card that gives up one or more tricks.
• n. (caving) A traversal of a narrow passage.
• n. (epigraphy) An impression of an inscription formed by pressing wet paper onto the surface and peeling…
• n. (mining) The gradual closing of workings by the weight of the overlying strata.
• n. (dated) A bribe or fee paid to a middleman, especially in China; the practice of requiring such a bribe…

tang

• n. (obsolete) tongue.
• n. A refreshingly sharp aroma or flavor.
• n. A strong or offensive taste; especially, a taste of something extraneous to the thing itself.
• n. (figuratively) A sharp, specific flavor or tinge.
• n. A projecting part of an object by means of which it is secured to a handle, or to some other part.
• n. The part of a knife, fork, file, or other small instrument, which is inserted into the handle.
• n. The projecting part of the breech of a musket barrel, by which the barrel is secured to the stock.
• n. The part of a sword blade to which the handle is fastened.
• n. Anything resembling a tongue in form or position such as the tongue of a buckle.
• n. A group of saltwater fish from the Acanthuridae family, especially the Zebrasoma genus, also known as…
• n. A sharp, twanging sound; an unpleasant tone; a twang.
• v. (dated, beekeeping) To strike two metal objects together loudly in order to persuade a swarm of honeybees…
• v. To make a ringing sound; to ring.
• n. (rare) knotted wrack, Ascophyllum nodosum (coarse blackish seaweed).
• n. (vulgar slang) The vagina.
• n. (vulgar slang) intercourse with a woman.

tanginess

• n. The quality or state of being tangy.

taste

• n. One of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals (Wikipedia).
• n. (countable and uncountable) A person's implicit set of preferences, especially esthetic, though also culinary,…
• n. Personal preference; liking; predilection.
• n. (uncountable, figuratively) A small amount of experience with something that gives a sense of its quality…
• n. A kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon.
• v. (transitive) To sample the flavor of something orally.
• v. (intransitive) To have a taste; to excite a particular sensation by which flavour is distinguished.
• v. To experience.
• v. To take sparingly.
• v. To try by eating a little; to eat a small quantity of.
• v. (obsolete) To try by the touch; to handle.

tweet

• n. The sound of a bird; any short high-pitched sound or whistle.
• n. (Internet) An entry posted on the microblogging service Twitter.
• v. (intransitive) To make a short high-pitched sound, like that of certain birds.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, Internet) To post an update to Twitter.
• interj. An onomatopoeic of bird singing.

twinge

• n. A pinch; a tweak; a twitch.
• n. A sudden sharp pain.
• v. (transitive) To pull with a twitch; to pinch; to tweak.
• v. (transitive) To affect with a sharp, sudden pain; to torment with pinching or sharp pains.
• v. (intransitive) To have a sudden, sharp, local pain, like a twitch; to suffer a keen, darting, or shooting…

twitch

• n. A brief, small (sometimes involuntary) movement out of place and then back again; a spasm.
• n. (informal) Action of spotting or seeking out a bird, especially a rare one.
• n. (farriery) A stick with a hole in one end through which passes a loop, which can be drawn tightly over…
• n. (physiology, countable) A brief, contractile response of a skeletal muscle elicited by a single maximal…
• v. (intransitive) To perform a twitch; spasm.
• v. (transitive) To jerk sharply and briefly.
• v. (transitive) To spot or seek out a bird, especially a rare one.
• n. couch grass (Elymus repens; a species of grass, often considered as a weed).

zest

• n. The outer skin of a citrus fruit, used as a flavouring or garnish.
• n. (by extension) Enthusiasm; keen enjoyment; relish; gusto.
• n. The woody, thick skin enclosing the kernel of a walnut.
• v. (cooking) To scrape the zest from a fruit.
• v. To make more zesty.