English Explanatory Dictionary

gnip

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To nip, bite; to champ at the bit

Word forms

gnip gnips gnipping gnipped gnyp

Etymology

Origin obscure. Perhaps an alteration of knip (“to bite, crop, nip”).

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