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nippingly, adv.|ˈnɪpɪŋlɪ|
[f. nipping ppl. a. + -ly2.]
In a nipping manner, in various senses of the adj.
1542Udall Erasm. Apoph. 184 b, Nippyngly did he taunte..the foolishe ambicion of theim. 1586T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. i. (1589) 365 Stop the mouthes of such as are..impudent,..with a certaine meekenes and grave smiling, and somewhat nippingly. 1853Lytton My Novel i. xii, Pinching her husband's arm very nippingly. 1879‘Annie Thomas’ London Season I. 19, ‘I don't see it at all’, Mrs. Varney nippingly replies. 1890Cornh. Mag. Sept. 257 Though the wind blow nippingly from the snow. |