knip

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Definitions

  • n. A pinch, nip.

Example Sentences

  • "The teachers had ten different words for hitting you, just like they say the Eskimos have 40 different words for snow, which is probably not true, by the way. You got a potch, a knip, a frask, such a potch, such a potch you won't know where it came from. And they'd also throw chalk, but they weren't very accurate." (source)

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Languages of Origin

  • Yiddish

Etymology

  • קניפּ knip

      • Who Uses This

      • Older: Jews who are middle-aged and older
      • Ashkenazim: Jews with Ashkenazi heritage

      Regions

      • North America

      Dictionaries

      • Yiddish and English: A Century of Yiddish in America, by Sol Steinmetz (Tuscaloosa, 1986).

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