Nip vs. Snip — What's the Difference?

Nip is an ethnic slur against people of Japanese descent and origin. The word Nip is an abbreviation from Nippon (日本), the Japanese name for Japan.

To cut, clip, or separate (something) with short, quick strokes.

To seize and pinch or bite

To cut or clip with short, quick strokes.

To remove or sever by pinching or snipping

An instance of snipping or the sound produced by snipping.

To bite or sting with the cold; chill.

A small cut made with scissors or shears.

To check or cut off the growth or development of

A small piece cut or clipped off.

To snatch up hastily.

A bit or scrap

To take (the property of another) unlawfully; steal.

One that is small or slight in size or stature.

To move quickly; dart.

A person regarded as impertinent or mischievous.

To sip (alcoholic liquor) in small amounts

Snips (used with a sing. or pl. verb) Hand shears used in cutting sheet metal.

To take a sip or sips of alcoholic liquor

(Slang) Something easily accomplished.

The act or an instance of seizing or pinching.

To cut with short sharp actions, as with scissors.

A pinch or snip that cuts off or removes a small part

To reduce the price of a product, to create a snip.

The small bit or portion so removed

To break off; to snatch away.

A sharp, stinging quality, as of frosty air.

(informal) To circumcise.

Severely sharp cold or frost.

To remove the irrelevant parts of quotations in the reply message.

A cutting remark.

The act of snipping; cutting a small amount off of something.

A sharp, biting flavor; a tang

A single cut with scissors, clippers, or similar tool.

A small amount of liquor.

A small amount of something; a pinch.

A small quantity of something edible or a potable liquor.

A piece cut out by snipping.

A nipple, usually of a woman.

(informal) Something acquired for a low price; a bargain.

A playful bite.

A vasectomy.

A pinch with the nails or teeth.

(informal) A small or weak person, especially a young one.

Briskly cold weather.

(onomatopoeia) An act or sound of snipping, the sound produced by scissors.

A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching

(dated) An impertinent or mischievous person.

A small cut, or a cutting off the end.

(obsolete) A share or portion; a snack.

(mining) A more or less gradual thinning out of a stratum.

A tailor.

A blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost.

A white marking on a horse's muzzle, between the nostrils.

A biting sarcasm; a taunt.

To cut off the nip or neb of, or to cut off at once with shears or scissors; to clip off suddenly; to nip; hence, to break off; to snatch away.

(nautical) A short turn in a rope.

A single cut, as with shears or scissors; a clip.

(papermaking) The place of intersection where one roll touches another

A small shred; a bit cut off.

A pickpocket.

A share; a snack.

A hamburger.

A tailor.

To catch and enclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon.

Small hand shears for cutting sheet metal.

To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip.

A small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off)

To benumb [e.g., cheeks, fingers, nose] by severe cold.

The act of clipping or snipping

To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.

Sever or remove by pinching or snipping;

To annoy, as by nipping.

Cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of;

To taunt.

To squeeze or pinch.

To steal; especially to cut a purse.

To affect [one] painfully; to cause physical pain.'

(informal) To make a quick, short journey or errand, usually a round trip.

A sip or small draught; esp., a draught of intoxicating liquor; a dram.

A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching; as, in the northern seas, the nip of masses of ice.

A pinch with the nails or teeth.

A small cut, or a cutting off the end.

A blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost.

A biting sarcasm; a taunt.

A short turn in a rope.

To catch and inclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon.

To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip.

Hence: To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.

To vex or pain, as by nipping; hence, to taunt.

A small drink of liquor;

A person of Japanese descent

A tart spiciness

A small drink

Small sharp biting

Squeeze tightly between the fingers;

Give a small sharp bite to;

Sever or remove by pinching or snipping;