nipple – English noun declension

English noun forms of nipple

Noun: nipple
Singularnipple
Pluralnipples

Sample Sentences

  • Mary felt annoyed at the girl; just because bras had become passé, did a girl with so pronounced a bosom have to cater to fashion? In this case practicality dictated a bra, and Mary stood at the desk feeling herself flushing with disapproval. And artificial nipple-dilation; it was just too much. [1964, Philip K. Dick, “THREE”, in Clans of the Alphane Moon, United States: Ace Books, →OCLC; republished London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 1996, →ISBN, page 27:]
  • Joan Trieste wore skin-tight dark pants and slippers and a cotton man’s-style shirt; as far as he could tell, she had on no bra, as fashion dictated, but her nipples were merely flat dark circles beneath the white cotton fabric of her shirt: she could not afford or did not care to have the currently-popular dilation operation. [1964, Philip K. Dick, “FOUR”, in Clans of the Alphane Moon, United States: Ace Books, →OCLC; republished London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 1996, →ISBN, page 37:]
  • I could tell he didn't agree but he went to the corner and took up his squirrel gun, feeling the nipple for a percussion cap. [2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 23:]
  • These were first constructed by heading the spokes, threading them through a steel felloe or rim and inserting them into screwed nipples which were in their turn screwed into the flanges of the hub. [1921, W. F. Grew, The Cycle Industry, London, page 5:]
  • In the original context of the World Wide Web the ’authorities’ are information sources, whereas herein the ’authorities’ are the material sinks. The hubs remain the ’naves’ in the link structure but are the sources of material. Continuing the wheel analogy, the authorities would be ‘spoke nipples’ [2024, Thérèse G. Lee Chan, David A. Janes, Kyle P. Joshua, “Filtering ‘3–2’ industrial symbiosis networks at a carbon-intensive cluster in a small island developing state to reuse CO₂ and water”, in Chemical Engineering Research and Design, volume 212, →DOI, page 45:]
  • Turn the nipples on to the bicycle spokes only one turn, for each spoke on the new wheel all the way around until they are all snug, then check alignment.

Etymology

From earlier neple, nypil, neble, believed to be a diminutive of nib, neb (“tip, point”), equivalent to nib + -le. Compare Old English nypel (“elephant trunk”), formed analogously as "a protuberance from one's neb" . See: Old English Nouns 'nypel'.

Verbs referencing "nipple"

German Nouns Nippel, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns nippel, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns nippel, Russian Nouns ниппель, Icelandic Nouns nippla, Romanian Nouns niplu.