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nipper
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tags: [britain] [slang]
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Definition:1. a child2. a mosquito
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“D’you think you know more about fowls than I, who have handled them ever since I was a nipper? I tell you, all those birds that went to the Alpha were town bred.”
Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
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Darling: Are you telling us you haven't had a pigeon, Blackadder?
Blackadder: Ohaaahhh!
Melchett: Jim - my only true love who's been with me since I was a nipper!
BBC. Blackadder, season 4: Corporal Punishment
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"[...] I'm an experienced searcher. Had a lot of practice when I was a nipper. [...]"
P. G. Wodehouse. The Girl in Blue, p.78 (1971)
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Us as little insects see!
With sharpest nippers flitting,
That our Papa Satan we
May honor as is fitting.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Faust
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