On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Michael wrote: #as has already been brought up by others, almost every #instance i've heard in which "nipply" used, the speaker #intended to make a play on the word "nippy". # #i myself often use the possibly-more-complete "it's a #tid-bit nipply out there" Shouldn't that be "tit-bit"? -- Mark A. Mandel Linguist at Large