SNIPPING

snip, snippet, snipping

(noun) a small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off)

SNIP

snip, clip, crop, trim, lop, dress, prune, cut back

(verb) cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; “dress the plants in the garden”

nip, nip off, clip, snip, snip off

(verb) sever or remove by pinching or snipping; “nip off the flowers”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Verb

snipping

present participle of snip

Noun

snipping (plural snippings)

The act by which something is snipped or cut.

A piece cut off; a clipping.

Anagrams

• nippings

Source: Wiktionary

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SNIP

Snip, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Snipped; p. pr. & vb. n. Snipping.] Etym: [D. snippen; akin to G. schnippen.]

Definition: 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.

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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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