nippit
/ˈnɪpɪt/(also nippet, nipet, nippid) Scottish
adjective
1Of food or clothing: scanty, sparse, inadequate in size or measure.
2Of a person: miserly; narrow-minded.
Origin
Mid 16th century; earliest use found in David Lindsay (c1486–1555), writer and herald. Originally a variant of nipped, now distinguished in form in senses below.
- bureau agent
- bureau bed
- bureau bedstead
- bureau chief
- bureaucracy
- bureaucrat
- bureaucratese
- bureaucratic
- bureaucratically
- bureaucratise
- bureaucratism
- bureaucratist
- bureaucratization
- bureaucratize
- bureau de change
- bureauism
- Bureau of Indian Affairs
- bureau of investigation
- Bureau of State Security
- bureau plat
- buret
- burette
- burfi
- burg
- burgage