Noun
nipper -
a young person of either sex; "she writes books for children" ; "they're just kids" ; "`tiddler' is a British term for youngster"
child ,
kid ,
youngster ,
minor ,
shaver ,
small fry ,
tiddler ,
tike ,
tyke ,
fry ,
nestling
juvenile ,
juvenile person a young person, not fully developed
child's body the body of a human child
bairn a child: son or daughter
buster a person (or thing) that breaks up or overpowers something; "dam buster" ; "sanction buster" ; "crime buster"
changeling a child secretly exchanged for another in infancy
child prodigy ,
infant prodigy ,
wonder child a prodigy whose talents are recognized at an early age; "Mozart was a child prodigy"
foster-child ,
foster child ,
fosterling a child who is raised by foster parents
scamp ,
imp ,
monkey ,
rapscallion ,
rascal ,
scalawag ,
scallywag one who is playfully mischievous
kiddy a young child
orphan a young animal without a mother
peanut pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; `groundnut' and `monkey nut' are British terms
picaninny ,
piccaninny ,
pickaninny (ethnic slur) offensive term for a Black child
poster child a child afflicted by some disease or deformity whose picture is used on posters to raise money for charitable purposes; "she was the poster child for muscular dystrophy"
kindergartener ,
kindergartner ,
preschooler a child who attends a preschool or kindergarten
silly a word used for misbehaving children; "don't be a silly"
sprog a child
bambino ,
toddler ,
tot ,
yearling a young child
urchin poor and often mischievous city child
nipper -
a grasping structure on the limb of a crustacean or other arthropods
claw ,
chela ,
pincer
appendage ,
extremity ,
member a part that is joined to something larger
crustacean any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton
