NIPPER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nipper mean? 

• NIPPER (noun)
  The noun NIPPER has 2 senses:

1. a young person of either sex

2. a grasping structure on the limb of a crustacean or other arthropods

  Familiarity information: NIPPER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NIPPER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A young person of either sex

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

child; fry; kid; minor; nestling; nipper; shaver; small fry; tiddler; tike; tyke; youngster

Context example:

'tiddler' is a British term for youngster

Hypernyms ("nipper" is a kind of...):

juvenile; juvenile person (a young person, not fully developed)

Meronyms (parts of "nipper"):

child's body (the body of a human child)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "nipper"):

peanut (a young child who is small for his age)

street child; waif (a homeless child especially one forsaken or orphaned)

urchin (poor and often mischievous city child)

bambino; toddler; tot; yearling (a young child)

sprog (a child)

silly (a word used for misbehaving children)

kindergartener; kindergartner; preschooler (a child who attends a preschool or kindergarten)

poster child (a child afflicted by some disease or deformity whose picture is used on posters to raise money for charitable purposes)

picaninny; piccaninny; pickaninny ((ethnic slur) offensive term for a Black child)

orphan (a child who has lost both parents)

kiddie; kiddy (informal term for a young child)

imp; monkey; rapscallion; rascal; scalawag; scallywag; scamp (one who is playfully mischievous)

foster-child; foster child; fosterling (a child who is raised by foster parents)

child prodigy; infant prodigy; wonder child (a prodigy whose talents are recognized at an early age)

changeling (a child secretly exchanged for another in infancy)

buster (a robust child)

bairn (a child: son or daughter)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A grasping structure on the limb of a crustacean or other arthropods

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

chela; claw; nipper; pincer

Hypernyms ("nipper" is a kind of...):

appendage; extremity; member (an external body part that projects from the body)

Holonyms ("nipper" is a part of...):

crustacean (any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton)

Derivation:

nip (squeeze tightly between the fingers)

 Context examples 

D’you think you know more about fowls than I, who have handled them ever since I was a nipper?

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)