Synonyms of the word nipper


NIPPERAPPENDAGE - CHELA - CHILD - CLAW - EXTREMITY - FRY - JUVENILE - KID - MEMBER - MINOR - NESTLING - PINCER - SHAVER - TIDDLER - TIKE - TYKE - YOUNGSTER

nipper

  • n. One who, or that which, nips.
  • n. (usually in the plural) Any of various devices (as pincers) for nipping.
  • n. (slang) A child.
  • n. (Australia) A child aged from 5 to 13 in the Australian surf life-saving clubs.
  • n. (Canada, slang, Newfoundland) A mosquito.
  • n. One of four foreteeth in a horse.
  • n. (obsolete) A satirist.
  • n. (obsolete, slang) A pickpocket; a young or petty thief.
  • n. A fish, the cunner.
  • n. A European crab (Polybius henslowii).
  • n. The claws of a crab or lobster.
  • n. (dated) A machine used by a ticket inspector to stamp passengers' tickets.

appendage

  • n. an external body part that projects from the body.
  • n. a natural prolongation or projection from a part of any organism.
  • n. a part that is joined to something larger.

chela

  • n. A pincer-like claw of a crustacean or arachnid.
  • n. A pupil or disciple, especially in Hinduism.

child

  • n. A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal…
  • n. (with possessive) One's son or daughter, regardless of age.
  • n. (with possessive) One's descendants, regardless of age.
  • n. (figuratively) A figurative offspring, particularly.

claw

  • n. A curved, pointed horny nail on each digit of the foot of a mammal, reptile, or bird.
  • n. A foot equipped with such.
  • n. The pincer (chela) of a crustacean or other arthropod.
  • n. A mechanical device resembling a claw, used for gripping or lifting.
  • n. (botany) A slender appendage or process, formed like a claw, such as the base of petals of the pink.
  • n. (juggling) The act of catching a ball overhand.
  • v. To scratch or to tear at.
  • v. To use the claws to seize, to grip.
  • v. To use the claws to climb.
  • v. (juggling) To perform a claw catch.
  • v. To move with one's fingertips.
  • v. (obsolete) To relieve uneasy feeling, such as an itch, by scratching; hence, to humor or flatter, to court…
  • v. (obsolete) To rail at; to scold.

extremity

  • n. The most extreme or furthest point of something.
  • n. An extreme measure.
  • n. A hand or foot.
  • n. A limb (major appendage of human or animal such as a leg an arm or a wing).

fry

  • v. (transitive) To cook (something) in hot fat.
  • v. (intransitive) To cook in hot fat.
  • v. (intransitive, colloquial) To suffer because of too much heat.
  • v. (intransitive, informal) To be executed by the electric chair.
  • v. (transitive, informal) To destroy (something, usually electronic) with excessive heat, voltage, or current.
  • n. (usually in plural fries) (mainly Canada and US) A fried strip of potato.
  • n. (Ireland, Britain) A meal of fried sausages, bacon, eggs, etc.
  • n. (colloquial, archaic) A state of excitement.
  • n. (now chiefly Britain dialectal) Offspring; progeny; children; brood.
  • n. Young fish; fishlings.
  • n. (archaic) A swarm, especially of something small (a fry of children).
  • n. (Britain dialectal) The spawn of frogs.
  • n. A kind of sieve.
  • n. A drain.

juvenile

  • adj. young; not fully developed.
  • adj. characteristic of youth or immaturity; childish.
  • n. A prepubescent child.
  • n. A person not legally of age, or who is younger than may be charged with an offence.
  • n. An animal that is not sexually mature.
  • n. An actor playing a child's role.
  • n. A publication for young adult readers.

kid

  • n. A young goat.
  • n. Of a female goat, the state of being pregnant: in kid.
  • n. Kidskin.
  • n. (uncountable) The meat of a young goat.
  • n. A young antelope.
  • n. (informal) a child (usually), teenager, or young adult; a juvenile.
  • n. (colloquial) An inexperienced person or one in a junior position.
  • n. (nautical) A small wooden mess tub in which sailors received their food.
  • n. (informal) A person whose childhood took place in a particular decade or area.
  • n. (informal) One's son or daughter, regardless of age.
  • n. (used in the vocative) Used as a form of address for a child, teenager or young adult.
  • v. (transitive, colloquial) To make a fool of (someone).
  • v. (transitive, colloquial) To make a joke with (someone).
  • v. (intransitive) Of a goat, to give birth to kids.
  • v. (intransitive, colloquial) To joke.
  • n. A fagot; a bundle of heath and furze.

member

  • n. One who officially belongs to a group.
  • n. A part of a whole.
  • n. Part of an animal capable of performing a distinct office; an organ; a limb.
  • n. The penis.
  • n. (logic) One of the propositions making up a syllogism.
  • n. (set theory) An element of a set.
  • n. (object-oriented programming) A function or piece of data associated with each separate instance of a…
  • n. (Australia, law) the judge or adjudicator in a consumer court.
  • n. A part of a discourse or of a period, sentence, or verse; a clause.
  • n. (mathematics) Either of the two parts of an algebraic equation, connected by the equality sign.
  • n. (computing) A file stored within an archive file.
  • v. (obsolete outside dialects) To remember.
  • v. (obsolete) To cause to remember; to mention.

minor

  • adj. Of little significance or importance.
  • adj. (music) Of a scale which has lowered scale degrees three, six, and seven relative to major, but with the…
  • adj. (music) being the smaller of the two intervals denoted by the same ordinal number.
  • n. A person who is below the legal age of majority, consent, criminal responsibility or other adult responsibilities…
  • n. A subject area of secondary concentration of a student at a college or university, or the student who…
  • n. (mathematics) determinant of a square submatrix.
  • n. (British slang, dated) A younger brother (especially at a public school).
  • n. (zoology) A small worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony, sized between a minim and a media.
  • v. To choose or have an area of secondary concentration as a student in a college or university.

nestling

  • n. A small bird that is still confined to the nest.
  • n. (obsolete) A nest; a receptacle.
  • v. present participle of nestle.
  • n. The act of one who nestles.

pincer

  • n. any object that resembles one half of a pair of pincers.

shaver

  • n. One who shaves.
  • n. A barber, one whose occupation is to shave.
  • n. A tool or machine for shaving; an electric razor.
  • n. (slang, obsolete) One who is close in bargains; a sharper.
  • n. One who fleeces; a pillager; a plunderer.
  • n. (colloquial) A boy; a lad; a little fellow.

tiddler

  • n. A small person.
  • n. (Britain, informal) A small fish, especially a stickleback.

tike

  • n. Alternative spelling of tyke (mongrel dog).
  • n. A boorish person.
  • n. Archaic form of tick (a kind of arthropod).

tyke

  • n. (dialectal) A mongrel dog.
  • n. (colloquial) A small child, especially a cheeky or mischievous one.
  • n. (dated, chiefly Britain) A crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement.
  • n. (Britain, informal) A person from Yorkshire; a Yorkshireman or Yorkshirewoman.
  • n. (Australia, New Zealand, informal, derogatory) A Roman Catholic.

youngster

  • n. A young person.

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