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say it: NIP-ing
nipping is an adjective meaning "capable of wounding". It is pronounced /ˈnɪpɪŋ/ — NIP-ing. It carries 2 recorded senses.
capable of wounding
“a barbed compliment”
“a biting aphorism”
“pungent satire”
pleasantly cold and invigorating
“crisp clear nights and frosty mornings”
“a nipping wind”
“a nippy fall day”
“snappy weather”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for nipping come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.