kid vs nipper

kid

noun
  • A child (usually), teenager, or young adult; a juvenile. 

  • The meat of a young goat. 

  • An inexperienced person or one in a junior position. 

  • A fagot; a bundle of heath and furze. 

  • A person whose childhood took place in a particular time period or area. 

  • Used as a form of address for a child, teenager or young adult. 

  • Of a female goat, the state of being pregnant: in kid. 

  • Kidskin. 

  • A young goat. 

  • A small wooden mess tub in which sailors received their food. 

  • A young antelope. 

  • One's son or daughter, regardless of age. 

verb
  • Of a goat, to give birth. 

  • To joke. 

  • To dupe or deceive (someone). 

  • To make a joke with (someone). 

  • To make a fool of (someone). 

nipper

noun
  • A child. 

  • Any of various devices (as pincers) for nipping. 

  • A European crab (Polybius henslowii). 

  • A young bluefish. 

  • One who, or that which, nips. 

  • A boy working as a navvies' assistant. 

  • The claws of a crab or lobster. 

  • A fish, the cunner. 

  • One of a pair of automatically locking handcuffs. 

  • A child aged from 5 to 13 in the Australian surf life-saving clubs. 

  • One of four foreteeth in a horse. 

  • A mosquito. 

verb
  • To seize (two ropes) together. 

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