nipper

Other forms of nipper

plural

nippers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about nipper

What does nipper mean?

nipper means "a young person of either sex". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in nipper?

nipper has 2 syllables: nip-per. The stress falls on "nip". In IPA it is /ˈnɪpɚ/.

What is another word for nipper?

Close synonyms include child, kid, youngster, minor, shaver. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is nipper a common word?

nipper is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.