subs. (old).—1.  A miser. Also NIP-SQUEEZE and NIP-FARTHING.—GROSE (1785).

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  1567.  T. DRANT, Horace, Sat. 1.

        I would thee not a NIP-FARTHING,
  Nor yet a niggard have.

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  2.  (nautical).—See quots. 1785, 1842, and 1867.

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  1785.  GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v. NIP CHEESE, a nickname for the purser of a ship, from those gentlemen being supposed sometimes to NIP, or diminish the allowance of the seamen, in that and every other article.

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  1834.  MARRYAT, Jacob Faithful, xx. (1873), 156. It’s some of old NIPCHEESE’S eights, that he has sent on shore to bowse his jib up with, with his sweetheart. Ibid. (1842), Percival Keene, xiii. ‘That’s a NIPCHEESE.’ ‘NIPCHEESE!’ ‘Yes; NIPCHEESE means purser of the ship.’

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  1867.  W. H. SMYTH, Sailor’s Word-Book, 477, s.v. NIPCHEESE. The sailors’ name for a purser.

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