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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SNIP, v.t. To clip; to cut off the nip or neb, or to cut off at once with shears or scissors.
SNIP, n.
1. A clip; a single cut with shears or scissors.
2. A small shred.
3. Share; a snack. [A low word.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off) [syn: snip, snippet, snipping]
2: the act of clipping or snipping [syn: clip, clipping, snip] v
1: sever or remove by pinching or snipping; "nip off the flowers" [syn: nip, nip off, clip, snip, snip off]
2: cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the plants in the garden" [syn: snip, clip, crop, trim, lop, dress, prune, cut back]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: from or akin to Dutch & Low German snip; akin to Middle High German snipfen to snap the fingers Date: 1558 1. a. a small piece that is snipped off; also fragment, bit b. a cut or notch made by snipping c. an act or sound of snipping 2. a white or light mark; especially a white spot between the nostrils of a horse 3. a presumptuous or impertinent person; especially an impertinent or saucy girl 4. British bargain, buy II. verb (snipped; snipping) Date: 1586 transitive verb to cut or cut off with or as if with shears or scissors <snipped the stray threads>; specifically to clip suddenly or by bits intransitive verb to make a short quick cut with or as if with shears or scissors • snipper noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. & n. --v.tr. (snipped, snipping) (also absol.) cut (cloth, a hole, etc.) with scissors or shears, esp. in small quick strokes. --n. 1 an act of snipping. 2 a piece of material etc. snipped off. 3 sl. a something easily achieved. b Brit. a bargain; something cheaply acquired. 4 (in pl.) hand-shears for metal cutting. Phrases and idioms: snip at make snipping strokes at. Derivatives: snipping n. Etymology: LG & Du. snippen imit.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Snip Snip, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Snipped; p. pr. & vb. n. Snipping.] [D. snippen; akin to G. schnippen.] To cut off the nip or neb of, or to cut off at once with shears or scissors; to clip off suddenly; to nip; hence, to break off; to snatch away. Curbed and snipped in my younger years by fear of my parents from those vicious excrescences to which that age was subject. --Fuller. The captain seldom ordered anything out of the ship's stores . . . but I snipped some of it for my own share. --De Foe.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Snip Snip, n. 1. A single cut, as with shears or scissors; a clip. --Shak. 2. A small shred; a bit cut off. --Wiseman. 3. A share; a snack. [Obs.] --L'Estrange 4. A tailor. [Slang] --Nares. C. Kingsley. 5. Small hand shears for cutting sheet metal.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(snips, snipping, snipped) 1. If you snip something, or if you snip at or through something, you cut it quickly using sharp scissors. He has now begun to snip away at the piece of paper... He snipped a length of new bandage and placed it around Peter's chest. VERB: V adv/prep, V n 2. If you say that something is a snip, you mean that it is very good value. (BRIT INFORMAL) The beautifully made briefcase is a snip at £74.25. = bargain N-SING: a N

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. v. a. 1. Clip, cut, nip, nip off. 2. Snap, snatch. II. n. 1. Clip, cut. 2. Piece, shred, fragment, bit. 3. Share, snack. 4. Tailor, snipper.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

A taylor.

Moby Thesaurus

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