| Nipperkin is of obscure etymology, though the form suggests Dutch or Low German origins. |
| Now I will call Brother Eoppa, our hospitaller, and he will give you food and a nipperkin of wine. |
| Here, you Jezabel, let Tim send the ale and the sack, and the nipperkin of double-distilled, with a bit of diet-loaf, or some such trinket, and score it to the new comer. |
| I have set a nipperkin of toddy by me, just by way of spell, to keep away the meikle. |
| Had he and I hut met by some old ancient inn, we should have sat us down to wet right many a nipperkin! |
