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“This she dragged out, and filling her "nipperkin" with water, carried them both to Ruth, saying, in her sweet, pleading way, --”
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“Opening a cupboard, I found half a loaf of bread, a nipperkin of milk, and a rind of cheese.”
“Dotty drained the nipperkin at two draughts, and said it wasn't half enough.”
“Little Flyaway ran after them, holding her nipperkin of milk close to her bosom, to keep off the flies, as she thought.”
“He loved the "nipperkin, canakin, and the brown bowl" more than they deserve.”
“In six little minutes more she soundly rated a careless servant-girl for carrying a nipperkin of wine awry and spilling good liquor.”
“Well, then, here's to your good health! for you must know, I have set a nipperkin of toddy by me, just by way of spell, to keep away the meikle horned deil, or any of his subaltern imps who may be on their nightly rounds.”
“Well, then, here is to your good health! for you must know, I have set a nipperkin of toddy by me, just by way of spell, to keep away the meikle horned deil, or any of his subaltern imps who may be on their nightly rounds.”
“This foldable telescope-shaped ring is certainly a cordial on-the-go nipperkin injection.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘nipperkin’.
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A taste for small things
Diminutives
screamlet, pip, purrlet, mannikin, nipperkin, munchkin, dodkin, elfkin, bootikin, dudeen, boreen, jackeen and 40 more...
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Gems from 1811 Dictionary of the Vulg...
Citation: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, unabridged from the original 1811 edition, with a foreword by Max Harris. London: Bibliophile Books, 1984.
Original title page: A Dictio...tuzzy-muzzy, half seas over, hugger mugger, hugotontheonbiqui..., doodle sack, juniper lecture, kate, kent street eject..., jack ketch, davy, abel-wackets, three-legged mare and 370 more...
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Kaichi's Wordie Darlings, or I'm a Lo...
persnickety, discombobulated, braggadoccio, anthropomorphous, antelucan, confluxible, anomalous, poseur, gallivant, poppycock, falderal, gewgaw and 705 more...
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pirates
foc'sle, pirate, buccaneer, landlubber, dubloon, bilge, barque, privateer, brigantine, bosun, corsair, coffer and 21 more...
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Ahoy!
Drink up me 'earties!
barnacle, cutlass, grog, blunderbuss, plunder, buccaneer, parlay, doubloon, keelhaul, scallywag, avast, hornswaggle and 15 more...
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End in -kin
You heard it here first. Well, maybe not first, but you heard it here. Well, maybe not "heard," but read. You read it here. At some point.
gherkin, merkin, firkin, malkin, pumpkin, bumpkin, pipkin, bodkin, napkin, mannikin, pigskin, sealskin and 83 more...
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Words that make me giggle
Some words are just plain fun to say... they give me a smirk or chuckle to read and think about or to randomly spout aloud and bemuse my children.
galoshes, gadzooks, gigawatt, lederhosen, mojo, nipperkin, alleyoop, cappiburra, cootie, deeley-bobber, farkus, gobbledygook and 26 more...
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Bottles of beer on the wall
Beer sizes.
handle, butcher, pony, middy, pot, jar, schooner, long neck, pint, glass, bottle, six pack and 29 more...
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Dutchly things
Words having some sort of Dutch origin, probably boring to everyone but me — I'm currently browsing 2,422 entries having "Dutch" in their definitions/etymologies, the best of which should fin...
mynheerify, mynheer, advocaat, dutch bargain, blauwbok, butter-box, quardeel, clinquant, closh, coot, dodkin, dorp and 85 more...
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chained_bear A small vessel used as a measure for alcoholic liquor, containing a half-pint or less. The quantity of liquid that can be contained in a nipperkin; a small quantity of ale, wine, spirits, etc. Chiefly Sc. in later use.
This was a very commonly used term at a previous job of mine. We used it to mean a shot-glass or shot-glass-sized amount of liquid. Usage, for example: "It takes many nipperkins to get me lit." Feb 16, 2007