nipple
[nip-uh l]
- a protuberance of the mamma or breast where, in the female, the milk ducts discharge; teat.
- something resembling it, as the mouthpiece of a nursing bottle or pacifier.
- a short piece of pipe with threads on each end, used for joining valves.
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Origin of nipple
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Contemporary Examples
But the Free the Nipple movement needs men, and the men of my generation are all for this cause.
But neither one translates on screen in Free the Nipple, which often feels like a well-produced student film.
I spoke to Allen, who had traveled down from Boston to support a Free The Nipple parade and to check out Boobie Trap.
The initial responses to Nipple didn't seem to be so much about the app itself, as much as its terrible grammar.
Nipple also posted the rather regressive question “Did gender equality go to far?”
Historical Examples
All the slopes of Nipple Top are hirsute and jagged to the last degree.
In the WildernessCharles Dudley Warner
There were no flat, or Peento, peaches but a sort known as Venus's Nipple was seemingly a typical beaked peach.
The Peaches of New YorkU. P. Hedrick
It was the highest peak in the neighborhood of the coast, and was called the Nipple.
Crusoe's Island: A Ramble in the Footsteps of Alexander SelkirkJohn Ross Browne
Saying this, I walked a few steps from the place where we were lying down, to see if there was any way of scaling the Nipple.
Crusoe's Island: A Ramble in the Footsteps of Alexander SelkirkJohn Ross Browne
nipple
- Also called: mamilla, papilla, teat the small conical projection in the centre of the areola of each breast, which in women contains the outlet of the milk ductsRelated adjective: mamillary
- something resembling a nipple in shape or function
- Also called: grease nipple a small drilled bush, usually screwed into a bearing, through which grease is introduced
- US and Canadian an informal word for dummy (def. 11)
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Word Origin
C16: from earlier neble, nible, perhaps from neb, nib
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Word Origin and History for nipple
n.
1530s, nyppell, "teat, duct-laden extremity of a mammalian breast," alteration of neble (1520s), probably diminutive of neb "bill, beak, snout" (see neb), hence, literally "a small projection." In reference to an artificial device on an infant's bottle, from 1875. A 16c.-17c. slang term for a woman's nipples was cherrilets.
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
nipple
(nĭp′əl)- The projection at the apex of the mammary gland, on the surface of which the lactiferous ducts open, surrounded by the circular pigmented areola.mamilla papilla mammae teat thelium
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nipple
[nĭp′əl]
- A small projection near the center of the mammary gland. In females, the nipple contains the outlets of the milk ducts.
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