nipper• The approach may be more considered but Burns still sounds like he was force-fed Brillo Pads as a nipper.• He used to go regular with his ma when he was a nipper.• His name is Steg and he's one smartcritter, at feedingnippers there's no one fitter.• I tell you, they're nippers.• The nippers, they love me.• The place was crawling with kids - bundles, toddlers, nippers, lopingadolescents.• You know, where you put a penny by each week in case your nipper gets sick and dies.
Originnipper
(1800-1900)nipper“boy who runs errands for a workman or street seller”, from → NIP1 2