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9 sty 2011 · I think the best way of approaching this is to think of the literal meaning - imagine a puppy which is playfully biting someone's heels. From that you can get a variety of "flavours" for the figurative meaning, from "following closely" to "being annoying".
nipping - tłumaczenie na polski oraz definicja. Co znaczy i jak powiedzieć "nipping" po polsku? - wyskoczenie, podskoczenie (np. do koleżanki, do sklepu); uszczypnięcie, szczypanie, przytrzasnięcie (np. palca); szczypanie (np. zimna, wiatru w policzki); zwarzenie (np. sadzonki przez mróz)
Verb Forms. [transitive, intransitive] to give someone or something a quick painful bite or pinch (= squeezing their skin between your finger and thumb) nip something He winced as the dog nipped his ankle. nip (at something) She nipped at my arm. Take your English to the next level.
• A school of fish swam around her feet, some nipping at her ankles. • It is a reflex born of predation by voracious crabs that nip at the tender tubeworm plumes with their claws . • In this case a budding urethral neurosis was nipped before it could really blossom .
13 wrz 2022 · To nip means ‘to squeeze something really tightly’ and also ‘to cut off,’ by either biting or pinching. We also use nip when it’s too cold meaning ‘to affect painfully.’ Informally, nip means ‘to defeat someone by a close margin’ and, mainly in US English, it means ‘to steal.’
20 wrz 2024 · nip (third-person singular simple present nips, present participle nipping, simple past and past participle nipped) To catch and enclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon.
nipping. 2 senses: 1. sharp and biting 2. sarcastic; bitter.... Click for more definitions.
