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"Nipper" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... done: barmen, nipper-men, tierers, veerers, idlers and all, scrambled up the ladder to the braces and halyards; while like monkeys in Palm-trees, the sail-loosers ran out on those broad boughs, our yards; and down fell the sails like white clouds from the ether—topsails, top-gallants, and royals; and away we ran ...
— White Jacket - or, the World on a Man-of-War • Herman Melville
... "Charlie Fish," says Tom Cooper to me, in a grave voice, "what would some of them young gen'lmen as comes to Ramsgate in the summer, and says they'd like to go out in the lifeboat, think of this?" This made me laugh, and then young Tom Cooper votes for another nipper of rum all round; and as it was drawing on for one o'clock in the morning, and some of the men were groaning with cold, and pressing themselves against the thwarts with the pain of it, I made no objection, ...
— Heroes of the Goodwin Sands • Thomas Stanley Treanor |
Words linked to "Nipper" : infant prodigy, imp, kindergartner, waif, appendage, sprog, crustacean, piccaninny, bairn, rapscallion, member, kiddy, extremity, foster child, street child, tot, picaninny, child, scamp, kindergartener, pickaninny, wonder child, bambino, child prodigy, juvenile, buster, rascal, nip, changeling, orphan, silly, poster child, yearling, monkey, foster-child, fosterling, preschooler, juvenile person, toddler, peanut, scallywag, scalawag, urchin, child's body |
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