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nippet, nippit
Sc. varr. nipped ppl. a. (chiefly in senses: miserly; scanty; starved; of restricted mental attitude; bitter, sarcastic).
1535Lyndsay Satyre 150 Howbeit my coat be schort and nippit, Thankis be to God, I am weill hippit. 1808Jamieson, Nippit, adj. 1. Niggardly, parsimonious... 2. Too small, scanty. 1814C. I. Johnstone Saxon & Gaël I. ix. 121 Na, na, I ne'er liket to be nippit or pinging, gie me routhrie o' a'thing. 1857H. S. Riddell St. Matthew xxv. 24, I kennet thee that thou art ane nippet man, sheerin' whare thou hestna sawn, an' getherin' whare thou hestna strinklet. c1860in Scotsman (1912) 13 Sept., ‘She is a puir nippet creater’—A poorly-fed child. 1875N. Elliott Nellie Macpherson 165 As regards the langidge, ye maunna be ower nippet on that point. 1924A. Dodd Poppies in Corn 33 Ye're naewise mean or nippit. 1925Glasgow Herald 23 May 4/4 Nannie..rejected nothing—but oatcakes. The misguided and ‘nippet’ woman at the Sluices once offered these, conspicuously ill-baked. 1935D. Kirkwood My Life of Revolt 222 Philip Snowden's views were precise, narrow, and moulded by the immediate circumstances. The Scotsmen used to call him ‘nippet’. 1962Buchan Observer 24 July 2 Nippet words an' soor ill-naiter Gart her man an' bairns behave! |