From en.wiktionary.org:
[сніп]
** English
*** Etymology
From [en] or [en], of [en] origin.[1] Compare [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. To cut with short sharp actions, as with scissors .
2. To reduce the price of a product, to create a snip.
3. To break off; to snatch away.
4. * {{ RQ:Defoe Captain Singleton
|passage=The captain seldom ordered anything out of the ship's stores [...]
but I SNIPT [...]some of it for my own share.}}
1. [en] To circumcise .
2. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2001 | author=David Cohen | title=The Father's Book: Being a Good Dad in the 21st Century | pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=UnwI_ce3AskC&pg=PA72 | page=72 | publisher=John WIley & Sons Ltd | year_published=2001 | isbn=0470841338
|passage=Circumcised fathers face a special problem. Do you want your son's
willy to be that radically different from your own? So, parents should perhaps
not be put off. Be good to your son's future lovers and have him SNIPPED.}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2008 | author=Ilene Schneider | title=Talk Dirty Yiddish: Beyond Drek: The Curses, Slang, and Street Lingo You Need to Know When You Speak Yiddish | pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=7yoeC8NfErIC&pg=PA150 | page=150 | publisher=Adams Media | year_published=2008 | isbn=9781598698565
|passage=His children, however, were not SNIPPED, possibly because Princess
Diana was opposed to the practice, which is out of fashion in England.}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2012 | author=Tom Hickman | title=God's Doodle: The Life and Times of the Penis | pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=Ykz7va8qfJsC&pg=PA144 | page=144 | publisher=Square Peg | year_published=2012 | isbn=9780224095532
|passage=By the outbreak of the First World War such claims had diminished and
the medical profession touted circumcision as being 'hygienic' — fathers were
not only encouraged to have their newborn sons SNIPPED, but to belatedly enjoy
the benefits themselves.}}
1. * [en]
2. [en] To perform a vasectomy .
3. [en] To remove the irrelevant parts of quotation s in the reply message .
4. To speak or say in a snippish manner.
5. * [en]
**** Derived terms
- [en]
**** Translations
[to cut with short sharp actions]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Spanish: [es]
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*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. The act of snipping ; cutting a small amount off of something.
2. A single cut with scissors, clippers, or similar tool.
3. A small amount of something; a pinch .
4. A piece cut out by snipping.
5. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1967 | author=Elizabeth George Speare | title=The Prospering | page=293
|passage=It was true about the fanmaking; the table and floor were littered
with SNIPS of paper.}}
1. [en] Something acquired for a low price; a bargain .
2. [en] A vasectomy .
3. [en] A small or weak person, especially a young one.
4. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2010 | author=Ellen Renner | title=Castle of Shadows | publisher=Hachette UK | year_published=2010 | isbn=1408313723
|passage='Might as well come out now, you little SNIP, from wherever you be
hiding!'}}
1. [en] An act or sound of snipping, the sound produced by scissors .
2. [en] An impertinent or mischievous person.
3. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1835 | author=William Hamilton Maxwell | title=My Life | page=283
|passage=Nor was the lady's establishment more fortunate in gaining the regard
of the household. The maid was a verjuiced spinster, too old to love herself,
and too ill-natured to look on. The footman was a regular SNIP [...]}}
1. [en] A share or portion ; a snack .
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1680 | author=w:Roger L'Estrange | title=The Free-Born Subject, Or, the Englishmans Birthright Asserted Against All Tyrannical Vsvrpations Either in Church or State
|passage=His Third Query is a Frank Proposal, without any more ado, of taking
all the Church Lands into the Crown; and Courteously he offers the Poor
Cavaliers a SNIP in the Booty}}
1. [en] A tailor .
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1850 | author=Charles Kingsley | title=Alton Locke
|passage=[...] you fool, why did you let out that you were a SNIP?" <br>"I am
not ashamed of my trade.”}}
1. A white marking on a horse 's muzzle , between the nostrils.
**** Derived terms
- [en]
- [en]
**** Translations
[the act of snipping]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
[trans-bottom]
[a low price, a bargain]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
[trans-bottom]
[a small amount of something]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[a euphemism for a vasectomy] [trans-bottom]
[sound produced by scissors]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Italian: [it]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Turkish: [tr]
[trans-bottom]
*** Derived terms
- [en]
- [en]
*** References
References:
[1]. [R:Etymonline]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en]
** Dutch
*** Alternative forms
- [nl]
*** Etymology
From [nl], ultimately from the root of [nl].
*** Pronunciation
- [nl]
- [nl]
- [nl]
- [nl]
*** Noun
[f]
1. [nl] a snipe or woodcock , thin-beaked bird of the genera [Gallinago] , [Scolopax] , [Lymnocryptes] , [Limnodromus] and [Coenocorypha]
2. [nl] a 100 guilder s banknote
**** Derived terms
{{col|nl |grijze snip |houtsnip |poelsnip |Siberische snip |snipverkouden
|watersnip }}
**** Descendants
- [af]
- [bor=1]
- [srn]
** Swedish
[lang=sv]
*** Noun
[c]
1. a lip (on a vessel)
2. [alpine bullrush] , [cotton deergrass] ( [Trichophorum alpinum] )
3. [sv] glanders (infectious disease of horses, mules, and donkeys)
**** Declension
[sv-infl-noun-c-ar]
**** Related terms
- [sv]
- [sv]
*** References
- [so]
- [saol]
- [saob]