Nipple

Definition: Nipple

Nipple

Noun

1. The small projection of a mammary gland.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "nipple" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1595. (references)

Note: Nipple \Nip"ple\, noun. [Formerly neble, diminutive of neb. See Neb, Nib.]. (references)

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Multilingual Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Nipple

Convexity

Papilla, nipple, teat,papilla, nipple, teat, tit, titty, boob, knocker, pap, breast, dug, mammilla.

Crosswords: Nipple

Five in each ear, one through the nipple on my left breast, one through my right nostril, one through my left eyebrow, one in my lip, one in my clit and I wear a stud in my tongue (Pulp Fiction; writing credit: Quentin Tarantino; Roger Avary)

I'm not sure, and correct me if I'm wrong, but I think I see a nipple. (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt)

They said to me the nipple is too big. Can you get a woman with a smaller nipple (TV's Most Censored Moments; writing credit: David Story)

I want you to kiss me and squeeze my nipple. (Natural Born Killers; writing credit: David Veloz)

Nipple. (Family Guy; writing credit: Dolores Payás)

Fierce nipple pierce you got me sprung with your tongue ring (Butterfly; performing artist: Crazy Town)

Robert Having His Nipple Pierced (1971)

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Books

• Nipple Trauma (Breastfeeding Management Series) (reference)

• Whiskey Nipple (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Nipple (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• Melnor 64Z1/2 Double Female Nipple with Swivel (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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Shows illustration of breast structure: rib, muscle, lobes, ducts, nipple, areola, fat. (8x10 negative). Credit: Susan Spangler (artist).

This is a series of 16 photos demonstrating the 16 steps of a clinical breast examination. The steps are as follows: 1) arms in normal position 2) arms on hips 3) pressed forward elbows 4) pressed forward 5) arms overhead 6) arms overhead 7) arms raised and pressing down 8) exam of cervical nodes 9) exam of supraclavicular 10) infraclavicular 11) axilla 12) exam of breast 13) axilla 14) breast exam 15) exam of nipple 16) exam of nipple for discharge. Credit: Photogroup (photographer).

White woman patient is being operated on. Her nipple is being incised by the surgeon. The surgeon and an operating room attendant are visible (there may actually be two surgeons). A surgical biopsy is being performed to determine exact nature of solid tumor. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

The breast of a black woman is exposed and highlighted. Some scoring is visible on the breast below the nipple marking the tumor area. Surgeons are visible looking over the patient examining the patient. They will mark and place tubes for later implantation of radioactive iridium seeds. Wider view is also available. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

Putting the nipple on a float well Tides party of Gerald B. Mills Photo #2 of sequence. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Oil field worker screwing on a nipple, Kilgore, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Human Rights

Indonesia

For example, a suspected GAM member told HRW that a joint security force of police, Brimob, and military arrested and blindfolded him on April 2. He said that his interrogators "used pliers to pull the nail off his left thumb, punctured his nose, and caused other scars on his forearm and nipple." Methods of torture documented in the past include beating, whipping, electric shock, and rape. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Nipple

Nipple

Expressions using "nipple": grease nipple ♦ nipple discharge ♦ nipple mouse ♦ nipple shield ♦ nursing nipple ♦ Paget's disease of the nipple ♦ rubber nipple ♦ solder nipple ♦ teat nipple. Additional references.

Beginning with "nipple": nipple-ceiling, nipple-gazing, nipple-like, nipple-pink, nipple-shaped.

Ending with "nipple": breast-nipple, ghost-nipple.

Albanian

thumb (clapper, cleat, dart, Pike, sneer, Spike, sting, stinger, tack, taunt, tongue of bell, wisecrack), thith (absorb, draw, draw down, drink, imbibe, immerse, inhale, pull at, snuff, soak, soak up, sop, suck, suck in, take up), thimth (teat), flluskë (bleb, blister, bubble, vesicle, water blister), e dalë (bay, drip, extrusion, jut, lug, nib, offset, outing, overhang, projection, promontory, protuberance, shelf, torus, undershot), biberon (dummy, pacifier). (various references)

Arabic 

‏حلمة زجاجة الإرضاع, ‏حلمة الثدي (dug, pap, teat), ‏النبل وصلة تصل بيت وصلتين. (various references)

Bulgarian 

щуцер (nozzle, orifice, sleeve), шупла (hole, knot, pipe, piping, pore), газов мехур, нипел, зърно на гърда (pap, teat), зърно (bean, corn, grain, kernel, mammilla, seed), дюза (burner, jet, nozzle, orifice, sprayer). (various references)

Chinese 

乳� � , 乳头. (various references)

Czech

struk (shell, teat), prsní bradavka (mammilla), dudlík na láhev. (various references)

Danish

nippel (core tube, extruder tip, guide tip, guider, mandrel, point), niple (connecting piece), sut (baby-bottle mouth piece, comforter, dummy, pacifier, teat, teat nipple), samlingsstykke (connecting piece), muffe (bell, boot, bushing, collar, dog, hub, muff, sleeve, sliding dog, socket), ejektor (ejector), dyse (choke, connection, ejector, jet, nozzle, sprue bush), bøsning (bush, bushing, collar, dog, jack, petticoat, sleeve, sliding dog, socket). (various references)

Dutch

speen (baby's comforter, comforter, dummy, pacifier, vacuum-cleaner), tepel (teat). (various references)

Esperanto

mampinto, cicumo, cico. (various references)

Faeroese

vørta (wart), boppa (breast, teat). (various references)

Farsi 

پستانک مخصوص شیربچه , نوک پستان (Breast, Dug, Pap, Teat), نوک غده , ازنوک پستان خوردن . (various references)

Finnish

nänni (teat), tutti (baby's dummy), kaksoisnippa, jatkoskappale (cover plate, fishplate). (various references)

French

mamelon, tétine (teat nipple). (various references)

German

Nippel (guider, nozzle), brustwarze (teat), Sauger (dummy, pacifier, teat, vacuum), Rohrstutzen, Zitze (dug, teat). (various references)

Greek 

ρόγα (berry, grape), θηλή (papilla). (various references)

Hebrew 

ש�" (bosom, breast, teat), פטמ�" (teat), �"�" (bosom, breast, brisket, dug, tap, teat). (various references)

Hungarian

mellbimbó (mamma, mammilla, pap, teat), gumicucli, vastagodás (expansion, thickening), szopóka (mouthpiece), hollandi (Dutch, Hollander), hegydomborulat, gyújtólyuk (vent), emlőbimbó, dudor (boss, bulge, knob, protrusion, swelling, tuber, wart), domborulat (boss, bulge, camber, shoulder, swell), cumi (comforter, dummy, pacifier, teat), csecs (breast), csőkapcsoló karmantyú, csőkötés (union), csőillesztés. (various references)

Indonesian

puting susu, puting, dot (pacifier), bentil. (various references)

Italian

nipplo, nipple (connecting piece), ugello (jet, nozzle), tettarella (teat), supporto connettore (connecting piece), raccordo filettato, raccordo (joint, junction), manicotto (coupling, muff, sleeve), estrattore (drawer, extractor), espulsore (ejector), eiettore (ejector, exhaust fan, exhauster, suction-pipe), capezzolo (dug, teat). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

乳首 (teat), 乳� � (teat), 乳房 2 (breast, udder), 乳房 1 (breast, udder), 乳房 (breast, udder). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

にゅうぼう (breast, pestle, udder), にゅうとう (bathing at hot springs, joining a political party, lactose, milk sugar, taking a hot bath, teat), ちくび (teat), ちぶさ (breast, udder), ちちくび (teat). (various references)

Korean 

� �꼭지. (various references)

Manx

sheeint (boob, breast, dug, pap, teat, teat of animal), sheeiney (boob, breast, dug, mamilla, pap, teat), pioban kianglee, meilley (basin, wooden bowl), mamm (blain, blister, boil), kione ny kee, keeagh (breast, bud, pap, teat, teat of woman). (various references)

Norwegian

brystvorte. (various references)

Pig Latin

ipplenay.(various references)

Portuguese

mamilo (breast, breast-nipple), bocal (aperture, mouth, mouthpiece, muzzle, opening, snout, socket). (various references)

Romanian

niplu, suzetã (pacifier), sfârc (mamilla, pap, teat), mamelon (mamelon, pap, teat), biberon (child's bottle, feeder). (various references)

Russian 

ниппель. (various references)

Scottish

sine (a teat, a. older, teat). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

cucla (bottle, pacifier), cevni priključak, bradavica (mammilla, papula, wart). (various references)

Spanish

pezón (stalk, teat). (various references)

Sranan

bobimofo. (various references)

Swedish

spene (dug, teat, udder), smörjkopp (lubricator). (various references)

Thai

หัวนม (raspberry ripple). (various references)

Turkish

yağdanlık (grease cup, lubricator, oilcan, oilcup, stuffing box), meme ucu (teat), meme başı (teat), meme (booby, breast, dug, lobe, mamilla, mamma, mammilla, mammo-, nose, pap, spray nozzle, teat, udder), emzik (cigarette holder, comforter, nose, pacifier, teat). (various references)

Ukrainian

соска (comforter, feeder), сосок (teat), сопка (sugar loaf), ніпель (adapter), бугор, бойок ударника, пузир у склі, патрубок (nozzle). (various references)

Vietnamese 

núm vú (mamilla, mamillae, mammilla), thuỷ tinh. (various references)

Welsh

diden (teat). (various references)

papilla. (various references)

fshtânem. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "nipple": nippled, nipples. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Nipple" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ippel, kipple, napel, Neppe, Niepel, nimple, nipely, niple, nippel, nippled, Nu-plex, Nypl. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: lippen.

-2 letters: lien, line, lipe, pein, pile, pine, pipe, plie.

-3 letters: lei, lie, lin, lip, nil, nip, pen, pep, pie, pin, pip.

-4 letters: el, en, in, li, ne, pe, pi.

+1 letter: lippens, nippled, nipples.

+2 letters: lippened, peopling, pieplant, pipeline, zeppelin.

+3 letters: appealing, appliance, inclipped, lagniappe, lappering, lippening, lippering, loppering, panoplied, panoplies, peneplain, pieplants, pimpernel, pineapple, pipelined, pipelines, piperonal, principle, pulpiness, rappeling, shlepping, unclipped, upleaping, zeppelins.

+4 letters: appareling, appliances, bepimpling, empurpling, floppiness, lagniappes, peneplains, pentaploid, perplexing, pimpernels, pineapples, pipelining, piperonals, plumpening, prenuptial, preplacing, principled, principles, propelling, rappelling, reapplying, repeopling, scaloppine, schlepping, septupling, sloppiness, suppletion, suppliance, uncrippled, unpeopling.