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snipping

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snip  (snp)
v. snipped, snip·ping, snips
v.tr.
To cut, clip, or separate (something) with short, quick strokes.
v.intr.
To cut or clip with short, quick strokes.
n.
1. An instance of snipping or the sound produced by snipping.
2.
a. A small cut made with scissors or shears.
b. A small piece cut or clipped off.
c. A bit or scrap: snips of information about the merger.
3. Informal
a. One that is small or slight in size or stature.
b. A person regarded as impertinent or mischievous.
4. snips (used with a sing. or pl. verb) Hand shears used in cutting sheet metal.
5. Slang Something easily accomplished.
[Dutch or Low German snippen.]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.snippingsnipping - a small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off)
snip, snippet
piece - a separate part of a whole; "an important piece of the evidence"


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She is probably a healthy, ruddy-cheeked young person who lives in the country, gets up to breakfast to pour out the coffee for some sort of a male relative, goes round the garden snipping off roses in big gloves and a huge basket, interviews the cook, orders the dinner, makes fancy waistcoats for her husband, and failing a sewing maid, does the mending for the family.
The Yellow Crayon by Oppenheim, E. Phillips View in context
As the height of luxury, Meg put out some of her sewing, and then found time hang so heavily that she fell to snipping and spoiling her clothes in her attempts to furbish them up a`la Moffat.
Little Women by Alcott, Louisa May View in context
As he stands at his door in Cook's Court in his grey shop-coat and black calico sleeves, looking up at the clouds, or stands behind a desk in his dark shop with a heavy flat ruler, snipping and slicing at sheepskin in company with his two 'prentices, he is emphatically a retiring and unassuming man.
Bleak House by Dickens, Charles View in context
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