nipper

Example Sentences

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The 61-year-old told how his father Keith won tickets to the 1966 final in a raffle and, although he was "only a nipper", he remembers the "noise and clackers" of the clash.

From BBC • Dec. 6, 2022

My family recently got a new puppy, a strong-willed and mouthy but ultimately lovable little nipper.

From Washington Post • Oct. 25, 2021

Then she snipped away part of the hoof wall with a nipper.

From Washington Times • Feb. 20, 2015

I'm pretty sure Nick Park saw this Tom and Jerry episode as a nipper.

From The Guardian • Aug. 23, 2012

This faun-like "nipper," Tree-perched, is tootling, tootling on, Though Pan be dead, Arcadia gone, And wild "Kazoos" are played upon By the cheap tripper.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, September 16th, 1893 by Various