nippe

Dutch

Verb

nippe

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of nippen

French

Etymology

Perhaps from guenipe. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nip/

Noun

nippe f (plural nippes)

1. (often in the plural) cheap and worn-out clothing; frippery
   • 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […] ‎, Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:

     […] et cependant, de toute cette fortune que l'on avait fait sonner si haut, rien, si ce n'est un peu de mobilier et quelques nippes, n'avait paru dans le ménage.

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Related terms

• nipper

Descendants

• → German: Nippes

Further reading

• “nippe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• pépin

German

Pronunciation

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Verb

nippe

1. inflection of nippen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

Massachusett

Etymology

From Proto-Algonquian *nepyi, from Proto-Algic *nepiʔi (“water”).

Pronunciation

• (Revived) IPA^(key): /ˈnəpˌpə/

Noun

nippe

1. water

References

• A Grammar of the Massachusetts Indian Language (1822)