nippe

nippe

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of nippen

Perhaps from guenipe. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /nip/

nippe f (plural nippes)

1. (often in the plural) cheap and worn-out clothing; frippery
   • 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […]‎^[1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:

     […] et cependant, de toute cette fortune que l'on avait fait sonner si haut, rien, si ce n'est un peu de mobilier et quelques nippes, n'avait paru dans le ménage.

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• nipper

• → German: Nippes

• “nippe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• pépin

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nippe

1. inflection of nippen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

From Proto-Algonquian *nepyi, from Proto-Algic *nepiʔi (“water”).

• (Revived) IPA^(key): /ˈnəpˌpə/

nippe

1. water

• A Grammar of the Massachusetts Indian Language (1822)