nipple
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
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Etymology: From earlier neple, nypil, neble, believed to be a diminutive of nib, neb (“tip, point”), equivalent to nib + -le. Compare Old English nypel (“elephant trunk”), formed analogously as "a protuberance from one's neb" .
Base: nib
Affixes: -le
Inflected forms:
form: nipples
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: neple
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: nypil
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: nyppell
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: neapel
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: neaple
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: neble
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: nipples
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: nippling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: nippled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: nippled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: neple
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: nypil
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: nyppell
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: neapel
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: neaple
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: neble
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: The projection of a mammary gland from which, on female therian mammals, milk is secreted.
pos: noun
examples: Mary felt annoyed at the girl; just because bras had become passé, did a girl with so pronounced a bosom have to cater to fashion? In this case practicality dictated a bra, and Mary stood at the desk feeling herself flushing with disapproval. And artificial nipple-dilation; it was just too much.
gloss: The nipple (definition 1) and the areola together.
pos: noun
examples: Joan Trieste wore skin-tight dark pants and slippers and a cotton man’s-style shirt; as far as he could tell, she had on no bra, as fashion dictated, but her nipples were merely flat dark circles beneath the white cotton fabric of her shirt: she could not afford or did not care to have the currently-popular dilation operation.
gloss: A mechanical device through which liquids or gases can be passed in a regulated manner.
pos: noun
gloss: An artificial nipple (definition 1) used for bottle-feeding infants.
pos: noun
gloss: Any small physical protrusion, such as the lumps on the F and J keys on computer keyboards.
pos: noun
gloss: Any small physical protrusion on an automotive, a machine part or any other part that fits into a groove on another part.
pos: noun
gloss: A perforated segment that fits into part of the breech of a muzzle-loading gun, on which the percussion cap is fixed.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: I could tell he didn't agree but he went to the corner and took up his squirrel gun, feeling the nipple for a percussion cap.
gloss: A short tube threaded at both ends, used as a connector.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: An internally threaded piece which holds a bicycle spoke in place on the rim.
pos: noun
examples: Turn the nipples on to the bicycle spokes only one turn, for each spoke on the new wheel all the way around until they are all snug, then check alignment.
These were first constructed by heading the spokes, threading them through a steel felloe or rim and inserting them into screwed nipples which were in their turn screwed into the flanges of the hub.
gloss: A pointing stick.
pos: noun
tags: humorous
gloss: To fit (a baby's bottle, etc.) with a nipple.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To give one's nipple to (a baby) to allow breastfeeding.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: smuggling raisins
Derived words: Batnipples
grease nipple
lipple
micronipple
nip
Nipple Butte
nipple cactus
nipple clamp
nipple clip
nipple-confused
nipple confusion
nipple cripple
nippled
nipple-dilated
nipple-dilation
nipplefruit
nipplegasm
Nipplegate
nipple gong
nipple guard
nippleless
nipplelike
nipple mouse
nipple pastie
nipple pasty
nipple shield
nipplewort
nipple wrench
nippley
nipply
Paget's disease of the nipple
pepperoni nipple
scalp-ear-nipple syndrome
slippery nipple
spoke nipple
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: ни́пел
roman: nípel
lang: Dutch
word: nippel
lang: Finnish
word: liitin
lang: Finnish
word: nippa
lang: French
word: mamelon
lang: German
word: Stutzen
lang: German
word: Verbindungsstück
lang: German
word: Nippel
lang: Portuguese
word: niple
lang: Portuguese
word: nípel
lang: Russian
word: ни́ппель
roman: níppelʹ
lang: Dutch
word: nippel
lang: Finnish
word: nippa
lang: German
word: Speichennippel
lang: German
word: Nippel
lang: Portuguese
word: niple
lang: Portuguese
word: cabeça