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Chill in the air
Answer for the clue "Chill in the air ", 3 letters:
nip
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Word definitions for nip in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. squeeze tightly between the fingers; "He pinched her behind"; "She squeezed the bottle" [syn: pinch , squeeze , twinge , tweet , twitch ] give a small sharp bite to; "The Queen's corgies always nip at her staff's ankles" sever or remove by pinching or ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"a pinch; a sharp bite," 1540s, from nip (v.). Meaning "a chill in the weather" is from 1610s, probably so called for its effect on vegetation. Nip and tuck "a close thing" is recorded from 1832, perhaps from sailing or tailoring.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Nip is an ethnic slur against people of Japanese descent and origin, similar to the ethnic slur Jap .
Usage examples of nip.
Snuffling loudly, she came close enough to nip at it and Alec snagged her by the head stall.
The only Englishmen likely to be out and about, though, were curbers and flicks and nips and high lawyers: thieves and robbers who might have a professional interest, as it were, in making his acquaintance.
But a steady stream of the lovely birds flashed downward, nipping at Erith with quick tilts of cutting beaks, then winging away with undiminished speed.
I must be content to abide by his judgment, and if I did not nip the affair in the bud there would be nothing for it but to remove Fanny from our care.
No alcoholic beverages would be served at the fantasia, and Cyrus enjoyed a preprandial nip of whiskey.
Her faultless nature, one sum of perfections, is wrapt up in her affections--if they were hurt, she would droop like an unwatered floweret, and the slightest injury they receive is a nipping frost to her.
Much vegetation had been nipped by early frost, and storms blew in every other day, roaring across the Pan Woods to rot what little provender remained and force the unicorns to spend full as much time huddling underhill as they did foraging for food.
But first old Giles must have a taste of food to put strength in his feeble old body, and a nip of wine to steady his torn and tortured nerves.
No craggy nor rockie places, nipt and blasted with sharpe windes, nor burnt with an vntemperate hotte Sunne, but vnder a sweet and pleasant temperature, in a moderate meane reioycing, betwixt two extreemes, the fields fruitful and without tillage and manuring, yeelding all commodities, warme hilles, greene woods and sweet coole shadowes.
But, after nipping off several choice hunks, the creature had no trouble regaining flight by running the length of the neck and flapping its massive furred wings a couple of times.
Just after Hamilton Place a bus went by, pulling away from the kerb, and I nipped on to it, giving him room to follow.
Even the two helmeted soldiers Kindy saw, evidently on fire watch, took furtive nips from covered bottles and wavered when walking.
Koolee, and Monnie, and Nip and Tup all ran to meet the hunters, and you never saw two prouder boys than Koko and Menie when they showed the reindeer to their mothers.
He massaged both and surprised her by laving her pussy, nipping her clit.
It had lidless eyes and horrible writhing hair that was a mass of eels with tiny sharp teeth nipping at her face.