nip
意味
- …をはさむ,つねる,ぎゅっとかむ
- (…から)…を摘み取る,はさみ切る《+of+名(+名+off)+from+名》
- 《まれ》…を縮みあがらせる,ずきっと痛くする
- を成長(進展)を止める
- はさむ,つねる,かむ
- 《おもに英話》《方向などを表す副詞を伴って》すばやく動く,急ぐ
- はさむ(つまむ,かむ)こと
- 《しばしばa~》肌を刺す寒さ
- 《しばしばa~》《米》強い(刺激的な)味,つんと鼻にくる風味
- 《英話》急ぐこと
- 酒の一口,すすり
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
From late Middle English nippen, probably of Low German or Dutch origin, probably a byform of earlier *knippen (suggested by the derivative Middle English knippette (“pincers”)), from Middle Low German knîpen, from Old Saxon *knīpan, from Proto-West Germanic *knīpan, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *knīpaną (“to pinch”). Related to Dutch nijpen, knijpen (“to pinch”), Danish nive (“pinch”); Swedish nypa (“pinch”); Low German knipen; German kneipen and kneifen (“to pinch, cut off, nip”), Old Norse hnippa (“to prod, poke”); Lithuanian knebti.