nipplen.

Brit.

/ˈnɪpl/, U.S.

/ˈnɪp(ə)l/

Forms:

α. 1500s neapil, 1500s neaple, 1500s neple, 1500s nypil, 1500s nyppell, 1500s nypple, 1500s–1600s niple, 1600s nipl, 1500s– nipple.

β. 1500s neble, 1500s nible, 1600s nibble.

Origin: Probably formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: neb n., -le suffix 1.

Etymology: Probably < neb n. + -le suffix 1, although devoicing of b to p in the α. forms is unusual. Perhaps compare nap n.⁴There is no clear connection with Old English nypel elephant's trunk.

a. The small projecting structure into which the ducts of the mammary glands open externally in female mammals (except monotremes), and from which milk is secreted; a teat; esp. this structure on a woman's breast. Also: the corresponding structure in a male mammal. Also figurative.

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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > front > breast or breasts (of woman) > [noun] > nipple

papc1175

teat?a1200

pap-head?a1425

big?a1439

wartc1440

teat headc1500

nipplec1510

spin1525

dug1530

spean1573

bud1593

milk papa1616

niplet1648

dud1679

mamilla1684

duddlea1708

diddy1788

tittya1825

knob1941

nip1970

α.

c1510 Lyfe Roberte Deuyll in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1864) I. 225 The noryshe nypples so harde byte he woulde, That yt went then to her verye hearte roote.

1538 T. Elyot Dict. Papilla, the nyppell or teate of a womannes breaste.

?1609 G. Chapman tr. Homer Twelue Bks. Iliads iv. 66 Thoas..threw a Dart, that did his pile conuaye Aboue his Nipple, through his Lungs.

1621 J. Reynolds Triumphs Gods Revenge: 1st Bk. iii. 92 So backe she hies to her childe, which she findes out by its crying, it wanting not onely his nipple, but his nurse.

1642 T. Fuller Holy State v. xiv. 411 He infected the Universitie, from which he suck'd no milk but poysoned her nipples.

1655 J. Shirley Gentleman Venice i. 11 I shall nere forget how pretily He took the niple, and would play, and prattle himself Asleep.

1671 R. Head & F. Kirkman Eng. Rogue IV. vii. 98 Opening her Breast, she conducted her Nipple to my mouth, which immediately quieted my bawling.

1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. ii. i. 22 The Nipple was about half the Bigness of my Head.

1738 S.-Carolina Gaz. 7 Dec. 3/1 Run away..3 new Angola Negro Men,..branded upon their right Breasts just above the nipple.

1767 J. H. Fussli Remarks on Rousseau ii. 25 Rousseau..traced man to the nipple of nature, found him wrapped up in instinct.

1803 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 9 428 A tumour appeared under his left nipple.

1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals II. xxiv. 477 The elephant..has only two pectoral nipples.

1868 Ld. Lytton Orval in New Poems II. 250 A finer babe was never Put to the nipple.

1887 R. Browning Fust & Friends in Parleyings 229 Too certain I sucked—Got drunk at the nipple of sense.

1915 D. H. Lawrence Rainbow viii. 198 Tiny hands clutching frantically as the nipple was drawn back.

1939 R. P. Warren Night Rider iii. 73 The woman..gathered the baby to her and thrust the nipple of her breast into its mouth.

1996 S. Figiel Where we once Belonged (1998) 185 You could easily see her nipples through the Jimmy [sic] Hendrix T-shirt she was wearing.

β. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 247/2 Neble of a womans pappe, bout de la mamelle.1598 R. Haydocke tr. G. P. Lomazzo Tracte Artes Paintinge i. 30 The heades or extuberances whence the milke is sucked out, are called Nibles.1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Tetin, the nibble or nipple of a dug.1650 C. Massey Glasse for Worldlings 21 So much wormwood withall makes me nauseat the nibble.1682 N. O. tr. N. Boileau-Despréaux Lutrin ii. 114 Or Caucasus did form thee, of a Pebble, Or some fell Tigress nurs'd thee with her nibble.

b. Originally: †a cover for a woman's nipple during suckling (obsolete). Now: an artificial teat for feeding a child or young animal, esp. the teat of a feeding bottle.

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the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > drinking vessel > [noun] > infant's bottle > cover for

nipple1661

the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > drinking vessel > [noun] > infant's bottle > teat of

teat1825

nipple1853

1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 412 The paine in sucking may be prevented by an artificial nipple, covered with that of a young heifer.

1671 J. Sharp Midwives Bk. vi. iii. 351 That it may suck without pain, cover the sore pap with a silver Nipple covered with the pap of a Cow new killed.

1853 E. Guernsey Homœopathic Domest. Pract. ii. xii. 437 A variety of sucking-bottles are used, fitted with an artificial nipple, pierced with small holes.

1859 Sci. Amer. 6 Aug. 85/3 The application of such [softened] ivory for nipples of nursing-bottles, or for covers of sore breasts, and for similar articles, is of importance.

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1528/2 The nipple..has a stop-flange..to keep it from passing too far into the infant's mouth.

1943 A. M. Lindbergh Diary 2 Feb. in War within & Without (1980) 322 Stirring a formula, watching for it to boil, and washing—bottles, bottle brushes, nipples..all for the children.

1988 Star (Tarrytown, N.Y.) 12 Apr. 34/1 Use a baby bottle with a large hole in the nipple.

1992 S. Prospere Sub Rosa 21 Once we cut a hole too large in the nipple of a bottle and drowned a calf with nourishment.

2. A device resembling a nipple (sense 1) in form and serving to dispense a liquid or gas in controlled amounts.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > conveyor > [noun] > conduit, channel, or tube > pipe > other parts of pipes

bum1570

nipple1574

rider1728

shoe1770

nose-pipe1787

tack1823

box valve1833

bell end1851

taft1877

taft joint1891

pipe ear1905

spud1905

1574 J. Baret Aluearie N 128 A little cocke, end, or nipple perced,..which is put at the ende of the cannelles of a fountayne, where through y^e water commeth foorth.

1841 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 4 93/2 A stop cock..so adjusted as to allow any number of drops per minute to fall from the nipple.

1862 Christian Recorder (Electronic text) 11 Oct. Hollow metallic canes filled with condensed gas are now used in some of the European cities. The bearer has only to turn a small nipple and he instantly finds himself furnished with a torch.

1873 E. Spon Workshop Receipts 1st Ser. 132/2 For filling the cases nipples of various sizes are employed, made preferably of metal.

1922 T. M. Lowry Inorg. Chem. xxi. 240 In the Bunsen Burner..coal-gas is admitted through a narrow pin-hole in a nipple at A.

1995 Farmers Weekly 31 Mar. 74/2 The centralised greasing point is a standard fitting, and comprises a bank of seven nipples..from which are lubricated all main primary drive bearings.

a. A protuberance, esp. from the skin or the surface of a body part, which resembles a nipple. Now rare.

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the world > life > the body > skin > protuberance > [noun]

caruncle1615

ridge1684

nipple1706

monticule1874

1706 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 25 2216 A small portion of it [sc. a tumour], in the form of a Nipple, did intrude itself as it were under the Tongue.

1718 J. Chamberlayne tr. B. Nieuwentyt Relig. Philosopher I. xiv. 274 Those little Protuberances, which they call the Papillæ, or Nipples [of the tongue].

1797 Encycl. Brit. II. 192/2 Spiders have five tubercles or nipples at the extremity of the belly.

1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. III. xxx. 128 Between them also there is a lozenge-shaped opening, through which..protruded a circular sort of nipple.

1860 P. H. Gosse Evenings at Microscope 459 Each vase is elegantly ventricose in the middle, terminating below in a kind of nipple to which the stalk is attached.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 670/2 In passerine birds of similar habit the caeca are vestigial glandular nipples.

1932 Confessions Dr. Archer 6 The little nipple of extreme joy which guards the mouth of woman's vagina..receives the greatest of thrills.

1990 D. Attenborough Trials of Life vii. 167 The caterpillar of the common oak blue butterfly has on its back a little nipple which, when stimulated, produces drops of sweet sugary liquid.

2002 OG Jan. 17/2 The remaining seeds will produce..a medium Roma-type tomato with a nipple or candlewick end.

b. A small rounded protuberance on glass, metal, etc.

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the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > protuberance or rounded projection > [noun] > a protuberance or protuberant part > like a nipple

teat?a1425

nipple1839

1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 582 Another workman now applies the end of a solid iron rod tipped with melted glass..to the nipple or prominence in the middle.

1863 J. Tyndall Heat (1870) iv. §115 101 Whenever the hot metal comes into contact with its lead carrier, a nipple suddenly juts from the latter.

1880 Spons' Encycl. Manuf. II. 558 A nipple for attachment [of the button] to the garment.

1940 Harvard Jrnl. Asiatic Stud. 5 79 The knobs on certain transitional or early Han mirrors consist of..pointed bosses surrounded by nipple points.

1991 Bicycling Feb. 116/1 The most important truing tool is a good wrench for turning the spoke nipples.

c. A small rounded elevation on the summit of a hill or mountain.

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the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > rising ground or eminence > [noun] > hillock > on summit

nipple1859

1859 in Mercantile Marine Mag. (1860) 7 106 Vessels..cannot fail..to recognize the mountain..by its..top, having several nipples.

1860 Mercantile Marine Mag. 7 328 The western of these nipples is the higher.

1873 W. Cory Lett. & Jrnls. (1897) 343 The crests or nipples of the hill-line are crowned with the domes of the mosques.

1930 W. S. Churchill My Early Life xxiv. 325 These fine troops..climbed the hill from the other side and actually established themselves on two nipples called the Twin Peaks.

a. A short perforated piece constructed on, or screwed into, the breech of a muzzle-loading gun, on which the percussion cap is fixed and exploded. Now chiefly historical.

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > parts and fittings of firearms > [noun] > lock > nipple

nipple1822

spill1823

pivot1835

1822 S. Davis Specific. Patent 4648 My improvement consists in forming and constructing the pan and nipple of the lock.

1853 J. H. Stocqueler Mil. Encycl. 126/2 A small copper capsule..which fits on the nipple of the touch-hole.

1897 F. M. Crawford Corleone x There was a percussion cap on the nipple of the lock.

1963 Jrnl. Econ. Hist. 23 432 One of the gun parts (the nipple) required a hole to be drilled in it.

1986 Shooting News 1–7 Aug. 22/2 Fill her up to the muzzle and watch water stream out of the nipple.

b. Chiefly U.S. A short section of pipe with an external screw thread at each end for coupling.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > conveyor > [noun] > conduit, channel, or tube > pipe > other types of pipe

swan-pen1426

service pipe1718

standpipe1728

service1786

jet pipe1795

safety tube1803

gas pipe1807

outlet pipe1837

pipette1839

downpipe1846

nipple1863

downcomer1868

downcome1872

wyea1877

benda1884

Y brancha1884

gas line1887

sparge pipe1910

riser1962

marine riser1972

1863 Sci. Amer. 10 Oct. 233/3 Gas fitters and pipe makers cut their threads so that any nipple will fit any pipe, and they have a regular and specified number of spaces to the inch.

a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 635/1 Nipple, a pipe coupling of reduced size, frequently threaded on the outside to allow the wire binding to compress the attached hose into the depressions of the thread.

1893 J. Horner Princ. Fitting xi. 252 Fig. 221 shows two elbows; C, connected with a nipple, F.

1951 Encycl. Workshop Pract. 634/2 A conically faced nipple is soldered or brazed to one pipe, a union having an internal conical seating being fitted to the other pipe.

1991 Processing June 50/3 Internal and external thread designs are available for making in-line connections or for sealing off ports or nipples.

c. On a bicycle wheel: a threaded collar, fitting through a hole in the rim, and into which the outer end of a spoke is screwed.

ΚΠ

1976 R. Ballantine Richard's Bicycle Bk. (rev. ed.) ii. iv. 238 If..you find spokes with frozen nipples (the part which holds the spoke to the rim) they must be replaced.

1991 Performance Bicycle Holiday 49/3 With Performance bladed spokes and silver alloy nipples.

2000 P. Vincent Mountain Bike Maintenance 35/1 Pass the nipple through the rim and turn it a few threads over the spoke. Now tighten the spoke.

Compounds

C1.

a. (In sense 1a.)

(a)

† nipple chancre n. Obsolete

ΚΠ

1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. II. 271 A nipple chancre..is not an infrequent result.

nipple cream n.

ΚΠ

1982 M. Messenger Breastfeeding Bk. iii. 34 Rubbing a little lanolin or nipple cream into your nipples towards the end of pregnancy may help you to get used to handling this area of your body.

2000 Herald (Glasgow) (Electronic ed.) 25 Jan. They help new mothers feed and show them how to apply nipple cream.

nipple level n.

ΚΠ

1893 S. J. Gee Auscult. & Percuss. (ed. 4) i. i. 9 The maximum of difference, on the nipple level, being an inch and a quarter.

1977 Man 12 495 Measurement with the tape placed horizontally around the chest at nipple level.

nipple line n.

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1879 St. George's Hosp. Rep. 9 183 Apex beat in 5th sp. × nipple line.

1980 Science 3 Oct. 18/3 They coax the newborns to the nipple line by coating their muzzles with saliva.

(b)

nipple-shaped adj.

ΚΠ

1824 Gen. Hist. & Coll. Voys. 252 The yellow-flowering gourd..has two kinds or varieties, the common and the mamillary, owing to the latter having a large nipple-shaped process at the end.

1995 Pittsburgh Post-Gaz. (Nexis) 3 Sept. g1 Our view to the south was filled by Pedernal Peak, the great green nipple-shaped mountain made familiar by O'Keeffe's paintings.

b. (In sense 4a.)

† nipple-lump n. Obsolete

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > parts and fittings of firearms > [noun] > lock > nipple > nipple-lump

nipple-seat1859

nipple-lump1862

1862 New Amer. Cycl. XIV. 84 The smith work is then completed by cutting off the muzzle..and welding on the nipple lump.

1868 C. B. Norton & W. J. Valentine Rep. to Govt. U.S. on Munitions of War at Paris Universal Exhib. 1867 35 Holding the breech-block firmly..by means of the thumb-piece and nipple-lump.

nipple-seat n.

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > parts and fittings of firearms > [noun] > lock > nipple > nipple-lump

nipple-seat1859

nipple-lump1862

1859 Sci. Amer. 1 261 A nick-headed screw..working into the screw threads, in the open end of said tubular nipple-seat.

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1528/2 Nipple-seat, the hump on the side of a barrel on which the nipple is screwed.

nipple wrench n.

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > equipment for use with firearms > [noun] > tool for (un)screwing nipple

pivot wrench1836

nipple wrench1844

1844 Queen's Regulations & Orders Army 96 (note) One nipple Wrench.

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1529/1 Nipple-wrench, the spanner with sides which fit the square of the nipple, used for screwing it to and unscrewing it from the barrel.

1955 G. Stevens In Canad. Attic 52 There are also bullet pouches, nipple wrenches, patch cutters [etc.].

C2.

nipple clamp n. a clamp applied to a nipple as a source of sexual pleasure.

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1974 Quorum 2 No. 11. 13/3 The Pleasure Chest on Seventh Avenue..specializes..in..exciting and imaginative items as slave collars, harnesses, handcuffs.., cock-rings, nipple clamps, and blindfolds.

1999 SL (Cape Town) June 57 Parties where decent, clean-living couples have orgies and wear nipple clamps.

nipple confusion n. the difficulty a baby may experience or manifest from being breastfed and bottle-fed at different times.

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1979 Seminars Perinatol. July 274/2 The use of rubber nipples..can sometimes lead to a rejection of the breast upon resumption of breast feeding. Nipple confusion can be avoided by giving feedings by spoon.

1999 Irish Times 23 Mar. (City ed.) (Educ. & Living section) 5/3 Introducing a bottle teet [sic] when breast-feeding has been established is very unlikely to lead to nipple confusion.

2010 B. Harlen Baby Surprise v. 78 Gage offered to give him a bottle so she could sleep, but Meg..believes..giving him a bottle at this stage could create nipple confusion.

nipple ring n. a ring worn through a pierced nipple.

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1977 D. Morris Manwatching 229 There are..a thousand other ways in which the human animal seeks to adorn its body... Some are exotic rarities, such as..nipple-rings.

1998 O. Tyaransen Goldfish in S. Champion & D. Scannell Shenanigans (1999) ix. 151 I was naked, completely in the raw (unless the nipple ring counted).

nipple shell n. a hollow shell-shaped device made of a rigid material, worn to collect breast milk or to encourage a flat or inverted nipple to become more prominent for the purpose of breastfeeding.

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1712 Boston News-let. 17 Mar. 2/2 (advt.) To be sold by Mr. Zabdiel Boylston... All sorts of Cordial Waters, Cupping-glasses, Nipple-shells, Urinals, Lancets, Plaister-boxes, [etc.].

1849 G. G. Foster New York in Slices 127 It has already been extensively approved for bougies, catheters, stethescopes [sic], nipple-shells, bandages, &c.

1998 Independent (Nexis) 15 Apr. c8 To dwell at length on the value of collecting drips in nipple shells does little to inspire a mother's confidence in her ability to produce the industrial quantities needed.

nipple shield n. a device worn over the nipple to protect it during breastfeeding; spec. a flexible plastic teat-shaped shield with a central perforation to allow milk to flow through.

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the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [noun] > feeding > feeding offspring > shield for nipple

nipple shield1799

1799 M. Underwood Treat. Dis. Children (ed. 4) III. 111 This public recommendation of the Nipple-Shield.

1860 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Nipple shield, a protection for the breast worn by females.

1987 Nursing Jan. 476/1 I knew that if I couldn't get Rosie on the nipple itself I could use a nipple shield and she wouldn't starve.

1995 Mother & Baby June 47/2 Nipple shields are available from chemists but don't use them for more than a day or so as they may reduce your milk supply.

C3. In the names of plants and animals.

† nipple cowry n. Obsolete

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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Prosobranchiata > section Siphonostomata > family Cypraeidae > member of (cowrie)

Venus-shell1589

Venus-winkle1601

wart-gowry?1711

nipple cowry1713

smallpox1759

cowrie1777

serpent's skull1795

Arabian cowrie1804

mouse1815

sea-louse1815

serpent's head1815

wasp1815

niggerhead1895

1713 J. Petiver Aquatilium Animalium Amboinæ 4/1 Gibba..white Nipple Coury.

† nipple peach n. Obsolete

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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > stone fruit > [noun] > peach > other types of peach

avant-peach1611

melocoton1611

man peach1629

nutmeg1629

muscat1664

Portugal peach1664

Modena1674

nipple peach1719

peachlet1877

peregrine1903

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > stone fruit > peach > types of peach

presse1604

avant-peach1611

man peach1629

nutmeg1629

Roman peach1629

muscat1664

Rambouillet1664

winter peach1664

rumbullion1670

Orleans1674

pavie1675

Magdalenea1678

minion1691

admirable1693

maudlin1699

clingstone1705

nipple peach1719

rareripe1722

melter1766

vanguard1786

freestone1807

cling1845

lemon cling1848

peregrine1903

doughnut peach1993

1719 G. London & H. Wise J. de la Quintinie's Compl. Gard'ner (ed. 7) 83 These are condemn'd by the Author as the worst of Peaches. Nipple Peach [etc.].

nipple cactus n. any of various cacti of the genus Mammillaria, having nipple-like protuberances.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cactus and allies > [noun] > other cacti

hedgehog thistle1597

Opuntia1601

mescal1709

Barbados gooseberry1756

night-flowering cereus1789

vygebosch1795

night-blooming cereus1799

rhipsalis1819

pigface1830

window plant1838

old man cactus1845

cholla1846

fish-hook cactus1846

spleenwort1846

epiphyllum1858

old man's head1858

rainbow cactus1860

green snake1864

torchwood1866

queen of the night1870

vingerpol1875

nipple cactus1876

niggerhead1877

rat's tail cactus1878

rat-tail cactus1878

Christmas cactus1880

barrel cactus1881

peyote1885

mistletoe cactus1889

schlumbergera1898

pincushion1940

opuntioid1944

1876 Encycl. Brit. IV. 625/2 Mammillaria.—This group..is called Nipple Cactus.

1890 Cent. Dict. Nipple-cactus, A cactus of the genus Mammillaria.

1920 B. M. Rice & R. Rice Pop. Stud. Calif. Wild Flowers 67 Mammillaria is well translated by the English ‘Nipple Cactus’ because of the protruding little nipples which cluster on the plant.

1976 Hortus Third (L. H. Bailey Hortorium) Index 1235/2 Cactus—..Nipple: Mammillaria longimamma var. uberiformis.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	nipple
释义	nipplen. Brit. /ˈnɪpl/, U.S. /ˈnɪp(ə)l/ Forms: α. 1500s neapil, 1500s neaple, 1500s neple, 1500s nypil, 1500s nyppell, 1500s nypple, 1500s–1600s niple, 1600s nipl, 1500s– nipple. β. 1500s neble, 1500s nible, 1600s nibble. Origin: Probably formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: neb n., -le suffix 1. Etymology: Probably < neb n. + -le suffix 1, although devoicing of b to p in the α. forms is unusual. Perhaps compare nap n.⁴There is no clear connection with Old English nypel elephant's trunk. 1. a. The small projecting structure into which the ducts of the mammary glands open externally in female mammals (except monotremes), and from which milk is secreted; a teat; esp. this structure on a woman's breast. Also: the corresponding structure in a male mammal. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > front > breast or breasts (of woman) > [noun] > nipple papc1175 teat?a1200 pap-head?a1425 big?a1439 wartc1440 teat headc1500 nipplec1510 spin1525 dug1530 spean1573 bud1593 milk papa1616 niplet1648 dud1679 mamilla1684 duddlea1708 diddy1788 tittya1825 knob1941 nip1970 α. c1510 Lyfe Roberte Deuyll in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1864) I. 225 The noryshe nypples so harde byte he woulde, That yt went then to her verye hearte roote. 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Papilla, the nyppell or teate of a womannes breaste. ?1609 G. Chapman tr. Homer Twelue Bks. Iliads iv. 66 Thoas..threw a Dart, that did his pile conuaye Aboue his Nipple, through his Lungs. 1621 J. Reynolds Triumphs Gods Revenge: 1st Bk. iii. 92 So backe she hies to her childe, which she findes out by its crying, it wanting not onely his nipple, but his nurse. 1642 T. Fuller Holy State v. xiv. 411 He infected the Universitie, from which he suck'd no milk but poysoned her nipples. 1655 J. Shirley Gentleman Venice i. 11 I shall nere forget how pretily He took the niple, and would play, and prattle himself Asleep. 1671 R. Head & F. Kirkman Eng. Rogue IV. vii. 98 Opening her Breast, she conducted her Nipple to my mouth, which immediately quieted my bawling. 1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. ii. i. 22 The Nipple was about half the Bigness of my Head. 1738 S.-Carolina Gaz. 7 Dec. 3/1 Run away..3 new Angola Negro Men,..branded upon their right Breasts just above the nipple. 1767 J. H. Fussli Remarks on Rousseau ii. 25 Rousseau..traced man to the nipple of nature, found him wrapped up in instinct. 1803 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 9 428 A tumour appeared under his left nipple. 1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals II. xxiv. 477 The elephant..has only two pectoral nipples. 1868 Ld. Lytton Orval in New Poems II. 250 A finer babe was never Put to the nipple. 1887 R. Browning Fust & Friends in Parleyings 229 Too certain I sucked—Got drunk at the nipple of sense. 1915 D. H. Lawrence Rainbow viii. 198 Tiny hands clutching frantically as the nipple was drawn back. 1939 R. P. Warren Night Rider iii. 73 The woman..gathered the baby to her and thrust the nipple of her breast into its mouth. 1996 S. Figiel Where we once Belonged (1998) 185 You could easily see her nipples through the Jimmy [sic] Hendrix T-shirt she was wearing. β. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 247/2 Neble of a womans pappe, bout de la mamelle.1598 R. Haydocke tr. G. P. Lomazzo Tracte Artes Paintinge i. 30 The heades or extuberances whence the milke is sucked out, are called Nibles.1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Tetin, the nibble or nipple of a dug.1650 C. Massey Glasse for Worldlings 21 So much wormwood withall makes me nauseat the nibble.1682 N. O. tr. N. Boileau-Despréaux Lutrin ii. 114 Or Caucasus did form thee, of a Pebble, Or some fell Tigress nurs'd thee with her nibble. b. Originally: †a cover for a woman's nipple during suckling (obsolete). Now: an artificial teat for feeding a child or young animal, esp. the teat of a feeding bottle. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > drinking vessel > [noun] > infant's bottle > cover for nipple1661 the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > drinking vessel > [noun] > infant's bottle > teat of teat1825 nipple1853 1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 412 The paine in sucking may be prevented by an artificial nipple, covered with that of a young heifer. 1671 J. Sharp Midwives Bk. vi. iii. 351 That it may suck without pain, cover the sore pap with a silver Nipple covered with the pap of a Cow new killed. 1853 E. Guernsey Homœopathic Domest. Pract. ii. xii. 437 A variety of sucking-bottles are used, fitted with an artificial nipple, pierced with small holes. 1859 Sci. Amer. 6 Aug. 85/3 The application of such [softened] ivory for nipples of nursing-bottles, or for covers of sore breasts, and for similar articles, is of importance. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1528/2 The nipple..has a stop-flange..to keep it from passing too far into the infant's mouth. 1943 A. M. Lindbergh Diary 2 Feb. in War within & Without (1980) 322 Stirring a formula, watching for it to boil, and washing—bottles, bottle brushes, nipples..all for the children. 1988 Star (Tarrytown, N.Y.) 12 Apr. 34/1 Use a baby bottle with a large hole in the nipple. 1992 S. Prospere Sub Rosa 21 Once we cut a hole too large in the nipple of a bottle and drowned a calf with nourishment. 2. A device resembling a nipple (sense 1) in form and serving to dispense a liquid or gas in controlled amounts. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > conveyor > [noun] > conduit, channel, or tube > pipe > other parts of pipes bum1570 nipple1574 rider1728 shoe1770 nose-pipe1787 tack1823 box valve1833 bell end1851 taft1877 taft joint1891 pipe ear1905 spud1905 1574 J. Baret Aluearie N 128 A little cocke, end, or nipple perced,..which is put at the ende of the cannelles of a fountayne, where through y^e water commeth foorth. 1841 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 4 93/2 A stop cock..so adjusted as to allow any number of drops per minute to fall from the nipple. 1862 Christian Recorder (Electronic text) 11 Oct. Hollow metallic canes filled with condensed gas are now used in some of the European cities. The bearer has only to turn a small nipple and he instantly finds himself furnished with a torch. 1873 E. Spon Workshop Receipts 1st Ser. 132/2 For filling the cases nipples of various sizes are employed, made preferably of metal. 1922 T. M. Lowry Inorg. Chem. xxi. 240 In the Bunsen Burner..coal-gas is admitted through a narrow pin-hole in a nipple at A. 1995 Farmers Weekly 31 Mar. 74/2 The centralised greasing point is a standard fitting, and comprises a bank of seven nipples..from which are lubricated all main primary drive bearings. 3. a. A protuberance, esp. from the skin or the surface of a body part, which resembles a nipple. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > skin > protuberance > [noun] caruncle1615 ridge1684 nipple1706 monticule1874 1706 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 25 2216 A small portion of it [sc. a tumour], in the form of a Nipple, did intrude itself as it were under the Tongue. 1718 J. Chamberlayne tr. B. Nieuwentyt Relig. Philosopher I. xiv. 274 Those little Protuberances, which they call the Papillæ, or Nipples [of the tongue]. 1797 Encycl. Brit. II. 192/2 Spiders have five tubercles or nipples at the extremity of the belly. 1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. III. xxx. 128 Between them also there is a lozenge-shaped opening, through which..protruded a circular sort of nipple. 1860 P. H. Gosse Evenings at Microscope 459 Each vase is elegantly ventricose in the middle, terminating below in a kind of nipple to which the stalk is attached. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 670/2 In passerine birds of similar habit the caeca are vestigial glandular nipples. 1932 Confessions Dr. Archer 6 The little nipple of extreme joy which guards the mouth of woman's vagina..receives the greatest of thrills. 1990 D. Attenborough Trials of Life vii. 167 The caterpillar of the common oak blue butterfly has on its back a little nipple which, when stimulated, produces drops of sweet sugary liquid. 2002 OG Jan. 17/2 The remaining seeds will produce..a medium Roma-type tomato with a nipple or candlewick end. b. A small rounded protuberance on glass, metal, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > protuberance or rounded projection > [noun] > a protuberance or protuberant part > like a nipple teat?a1425 nipple1839 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 582 Another workman now applies the end of a solid iron rod tipped with melted glass..to the nipple or prominence in the middle. 1863 J. Tyndall Heat (1870) iv. §115 101 Whenever the hot metal comes into contact with its lead carrier, a nipple suddenly juts from the latter. 1880 Spons' Encycl. Manuf. II. 558 A nipple for attachment [of the button] to the garment. 1940 Harvard Jrnl. Asiatic Stud. 5 79 The knobs on certain transitional or early Han mirrors consist of..pointed bosses surrounded by nipple points. 1991 Bicycling Feb. 116/1 The most important truing tool is a good wrench for turning the spoke nipples. c. A small rounded elevation on the summit of a hill or mountain. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > rising ground or eminence > [noun] > hillock > on summit nipple1859 1859 in Mercantile Marine Mag. (1860) 7 106 Vessels..cannot fail..to recognize the mountain..by its..top, having several nipples. 1860 Mercantile Marine Mag. 7 328 The western of these nipples is the higher. 1873 W. Cory Lett. & Jrnls. (1897) 343 The crests or nipples of the hill-line are crowned with the domes of the mosques. 1930 W. S. Churchill My Early Life xxiv. 325 These fine troops..climbed the hill from the other side and actually established themselves on two nipples called the Twin Peaks. 4. a. A short perforated piece constructed on, or screwed into, the breech of a muzzle-loading gun, on which the percussion cap is fixed and exploded. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > parts and fittings of firearms > [noun] > lock > nipple nipple1822 spill1823 pivot1835 1822 S. Davis Specific. Patent 4648 My improvement consists in forming and constructing the pan and nipple of the lock. 1853 J. H. Stocqueler Mil. Encycl. 126/2 A small copper capsule..which fits on the nipple of the touch-hole. 1897 F. M. Crawford Corleone x There was a percussion cap on the nipple of the lock. 1963 Jrnl. Econ. Hist. 23 432 One of the gun parts (the nipple) required a hole to be drilled in it. 1986 Shooting News 1–7 Aug. 22/2 Fill her up to the muzzle and watch water stream out of the nipple. b. Chiefly U.S. A short section of pipe with an external screw thread at each end for coupling. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > conveyor > [noun] > conduit, channel, or tube > pipe > other types of pipe swan-pen1426 service pipe1718 standpipe1728 service1786 jet pipe1795 safety tube1803 gas pipe1807 outlet pipe1837 pipette1839 downpipe1846 nipple1863 downcomer1868 downcome1872 wyea1877 benda1884 Y brancha1884 gas line1887 sparge pipe1910 riser1962 marine riser1972 1863 Sci. Amer. 10 Oct. 233/3 Gas fitters and pipe makers cut their threads so that any nipple will fit any pipe, and they have a regular and specified number of spaces to the inch. a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 635/1 Nipple, a pipe coupling of reduced size, frequently threaded on the outside to allow the wire binding to compress the attached hose into the depressions of the thread. 1893 J. Horner Princ. Fitting xi. 252 Fig. 221 shows two elbows; C, connected with a nipple, F. 1951 Encycl. Workshop Pract. 634/2 A conically faced nipple is soldered or brazed to one pipe, a union having an internal conical seating being fitted to the other pipe. 1991 Processing June 50/3 Internal and external thread designs are available for making in-line connections or for sealing off ports or nipples. c. On a bicycle wheel: a threaded collar, fitting through a hole in the rim, and into which the outer end of a spoke is screwed. ΚΠ 1976 R. Ballantine Richard's Bicycle Bk. (rev. ed.) ii. iv. 238 If..you find spokes with frozen nipples (the part which holds the spoke to the rim) they must be replaced. 1991 Performance Bicycle Holiday 49/3 With Performance bladed spokes and silver alloy nipples. 2000 P. Vincent Mountain Bike Maintenance 35/1 Pass the nipple through the rim and turn it a few threads over the spoke. Now tighten the spoke. Compounds C1. a. (In sense 1a.) (a) † nipple chancre n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. II. 271 A nipple chancre..is not an infrequent result. nipple cream n. ΚΠ 1982 M. Messenger Breastfeeding Bk. iii. 34 Rubbing a little lanolin or nipple cream into your nipples towards the end of pregnancy may help you to get used to handling this area of your body. 2000 Herald (Glasgow) (Electronic ed.) 25 Jan. They help new mothers feed and show them how to apply nipple cream. nipple level n. ΚΠ 1893 S. J. Gee Auscult. & Percuss. (ed. 4) i. i. 9 The maximum of difference, on the nipple level, being an inch and a quarter. 1977 Man 12 495 Measurement with the tape placed horizontally around the chest at nipple level. nipple line n. ΚΠ 1879 St. George's Hosp. Rep. 9 183 Apex beat in 5th sp. × nipple line. 1980 Science 3 Oct. 18/3 They coax the newborns to the nipple line by coating their muzzles with saliva. (b) nipple-shaped adj. ΚΠ 1824 Gen. Hist. & Coll. Voys. 252 The yellow-flowering gourd..has two kinds or varieties, the common and the mamillary, owing to the latter having a large nipple-shaped process at the end. 1995 Pittsburgh Post-Gaz. (Nexis) 3 Sept. g1 Our view to the south was filled by Pedernal Peak, the great green nipple-shaped mountain made familiar by O'Keeffe's paintings. b. (In sense 4a.) † nipple-lump n. Obsolete ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > parts and fittings of firearms > [noun] > lock > nipple > nipple-lump nipple-seat1859 nipple-lump1862 1862 New Amer. Cycl. XIV. 84 The smith work is then completed by cutting off the muzzle..and welding on the nipple lump. 1868 C. B. Norton & W. J. Valentine Rep. to Govt. U.S. on Munitions of War at Paris Universal Exhib. 1867 35 Holding the breech-block firmly..by means of the thumb-piece and nipple-lump. nipple-seat n. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > parts and fittings of firearms > [noun] > lock > nipple > nipple-lump nipple-seat1859 nipple-lump1862 1859 Sci. Amer. 1 261 A nick-headed screw..working into the screw threads, in the open end of said tubular nipple-seat. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1528/2 Nipple-seat, the hump on the side of a barrel on which the nipple is screwed. nipple wrench n. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > equipment for use with firearms > [noun] > tool for (un)screwing nipple pivot wrench1836 nipple wrench1844 1844 Queen's Regulations & Orders Army 96 (note) One nipple Wrench. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1529/1 Nipple-wrench, the spanner with sides which fit the square of the nipple, used for screwing it to and unscrewing it from the barrel. 1955 G. Stevens In Canad. Attic 52 There are also bullet pouches, nipple wrenches, patch cutters [etc.]. C2. nipple clamp n. a clamp applied to a nipple as a source of sexual pleasure. ΚΠ 1974 Quorum 2 No. 11. 13/3 The Pleasure Chest on Seventh Avenue..specializes..in..exciting and imaginative items as slave collars, harnesses, handcuffs.., cock-rings, nipple clamps, and blindfolds. 1999 SL (Cape Town) June 57 Parties where decent, clean-living couples have orgies and wear nipple clamps. nipple confusion n. the difficulty a baby may experience or manifest from being breastfed and bottle-fed at different times. ΚΠ 1979 Seminars Perinatol. July 274/2 The use of rubber nipples..can sometimes lead to a rejection of the breast upon resumption of breast feeding. Nipple confusion can be avoided by giving feedings by spoon. 1999 Irish Times 23 Mar. (City ed.) (Educ. & Living section) 5/3 Introducing a bottle teet [sic] when breast-feeding has been established is very unlikely to lead to nipple confusion. 2010 B. Harlen Baby Surprise v. 78 Gage offered to give him a bottle so she could sleep, but Meg..believes..giving him a bottle at this stage could create nipple confusion. nipple ring n. a ring worn through a pierced nipple. ΚΠ 1977 D. Morris Manwatching 229 There are..a thousand other ways in which the human animal seeks to adorn its body... Some are exotic rarities, such as..nipple-rings. 1998 O. Tyaransen Goldfish in S. Champion & D. Scannell Shenanigans (1999) ix. 151 I was naked, completely in the raw (unless the nipple ring counted). nipple shell n. a hollow shell-shaped device made of a rigid material, worn to collect breast milk or to encourage a flat or inverted nipple to become more prominent for the purpose of breastfeeding. ΚΠ 1712 Boston News-let. 17 Mar. 2/2 (advt.) To be sold by Mr. Zabdiel Boylston... All sorts of Cordial Waters, Cupping-glasses, Nipple-shells, Urinals, Lancets, Plaister-boxes, [etc.]. 1849 G. G. Foster New York in Slices 127 It has already been extensively approved for bougies, catheters, stethescopes [sic], nipple-shells, bandages, &c. 1998 Independent (Nexis) 15 Apr. c8 To dwell at length on the value of collecting drips in nipple shells does little to inspire a mother's confidence in her ability to produce the industrial quantities needed. nipple shield n. a device worn over the nipple to protect it during breastfeeding; spec. a flexible plastic teat-shaped shield with a central perforation to allow milk to flow through. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [noun] > feeding > feeding offspring > shield for nipple nipple shield1799 1799 M. Underwood Treat. Dis. Children (ed. 4) III. 111 This public recommendation of the Nipple-Shield. 1860 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Nipple shield, a protection for the breast worn by females. 1987 Nursing Jan. 476/1 I knew that if I couldn't get Rosie on the nipple itself I could use a nipple shield and she wouldn't starve. 1995 Mother & Baby June 47/2 Nipple shields are available from chemists but don't use them for more than a day or so as they may reduce your milk supply. C3. In the names of plants and animals. a. † nipple cowry n. Obsolete ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Prosobranchiata > section Siphonostomata > family Cypraeidae > member of (cowrie) Venus-shell1589 Venus-winkle1601 wart-gowry?1711 nipple cowry1713 smallpox1759 cowrie1777 serpent's skull1795 Arabian cowrie1804 mouse1815 sea-louse1815 serpent's head1815 wasp1815 niggerhead1895 1713 J. Petiver Aquatilium Animalium Amboinæ 4/1 Gibba..white Nipple Coury. † nipple peach n. Obsolete ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > stone fruit > [noun] > peach > other types of peach avant-peach1611 melocoton1611 man peach1629 nutmeg1629 muscat1664 Portugal peach1664 Modena1674 nipple peach1719 peachlet1877 peregrine1903 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > stone fruit > peach > types of peach presse1604 avant-peach1611 man peach1629 nutmeg1629 Roman peach1629 muscat1664 Rambouillet1664 winter peach1664 rumbullion1670 Orleans1674 pavie1675 Magdalenea1678 minion1691 admirable1693 maudlin1699 clingstone1705 nipple peach1719 rareripe1722 melter1766 vanguard1786 freestone1807 cling1845 lemon cling1848 peregrine1903 doughnut peach1993 1719 G. London & H. Wise J. de la Quintinie's Compl. Gard'ner (ed. 7) 83 These are condemn'd by the Author as the worst of Peaches. Nipple Peach [etc.]. b. nipple cactus n. any of various cacti of the genus Mammillaria, having nipple-like protuberances. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cactus and allies > [noun] > other cacti hedgehog thistle1597 Opuntia1601 mescal1709 Barbados gooseberry1756 night-flowering cereus1789 vygebosch1795 night-blooming cereus1799 rhipsalis1819 pigface1830 window plant1838 old man cactus1845 cholla1846 fish-hook cactus1846 spleenwort1846 epiphyllum1858 old man's head1858 rainbow cactus1860 green snake1864 torchwood1866 queen of the night1870 vingerpol1875 nipple cactus1876 niggerhead1877 rat's tail cactus1878 rat-tail cactus1878 Christmas cactus1880 barrel cactus1881 peyote1885 mistletoe cactus1889 schlumbergera1898 pincushion1940 opuntioid1944 1876 Encycl. Brit. IV. 625/2 Mammillaria.—This group..is called Nipple Cactus. 1890 Cent. Dict. Nipple-cactus, A cactus of the genus Mammillaria. 1920 B. M. Rice & R. Rice Pop. Stud. Calif. Wild Flowers 67 Mammillaria is well translated by the English ‘Nipple Cactus’ because of the protruding little nipples which cluster on the plant. 1976 Hortus Third (L. H. Bailey Hortorium) Index 1235/2 Cactus—..Nipple: Mammillaria longimamma var. uberiformis. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). nipplev. Brit. /ˈnɪpl/, U.S. /ˈnɪp(ə)l/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: nipple n. Etymology: < nipple n. Compare earlier nippled adj. rare. 1. transitive. Chiefly poetic. To provide with a nipple or nipples; to form an appendage of, or be situated on the surface of, like a nipple. ΚΠ 1882 Ogilvie's Imperial Dict. (new ed.) 262/3 Nipple v.t., to furnish with a nipple or nipples. 1971 Daily Tel. 19 Feb. (Colour Suppl.) 28/1 An enormous pinkish castle, proudly nippled with a pair of towers. 1973 P. Muldoon New Weather (1994) 19 I might have cured by my touch alone That pair of warts nippling your throat. 1994 T. Hughes in M. Hofmann & J. Lasdun After Ovid 117 A tangle of constrictors, nippled with suckers, That drag towards a maw. 2. intransitive. U.S. Of a baby: to take food from or suck on a nipple. ΚΠ 1989 Phoenix New Times (Nexis) 15 Feb. 8 If the baby had a neurologic reason for being floppy, for low tone, for not nippling well, then that certainly could also contribute to failure to thrive. Derivatives ˈnippling n. ΚΠ 1990 Neonatal Network 9 9 (title) Nippling management of the sick neonate in the NICU. 1992 Maternal Child Nursing Jrnl. 20 81 The purpose of the study was to determine if there is a maximum stressful nippling time span within the context of the prescribed amounts of formula taken. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1510v.1882
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