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"text": "I don't want you to take much hair off; just snip my mullet off.",
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"To cut with short sharp actions, as with scissors."
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"roman": "reža s nožica",
"sense": "to cut with short sharp actions",
"word": "режа с ножица"
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"sense": "to cut with short sharp actions",
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"sense": "to cut with short sharp actions",
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"sense": "to cut with short sharp actions",
"word": "découper"
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"sense": "to cut with short sharp actions",
"word": "cisailler"
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"sense": "to cut with short sharp actions",
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"sense": "to cut with short sharp actions",
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"sense": "to cut with short sharp actions",
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"To break off; to snatch away."
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"ref": "2001, David Cohen, The Father's Book: Being a Good Dad in the 21st Century, John WIley & Sons Ltd, published 2001, page 72",
"text": "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.",
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{
"ref": "2008, Ilene Schneider, Talk Dirty Yiddish: Beyond Drek: The Curses, Slang, and Street Lingo You Need to Know When You Speak Yiddish, Adams Media, published 2008, page 150",
"text": "His children, however, were not snipped, possibly because Princess Diana was opposed to the practice, which is out of fashion in England.",
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},
{
"ref": "2012, Tom Hickman, God's Doodle: The Life and Times of the Penis, Square Peg, published 2012, page 144",
"text": "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.",
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"To perform a vasectomy."
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"ref": "1980 August 16, Andrea Loewenstein, “Random Lust”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 5, page 19",
"text": "\"No, Jo, it wasn't one bit crowded, there was room enought for everyone,\" she burbled on. \"And we were there, and all these other wymeen too, of all shapes, sizes, and colors...\"\n\"Hmpgh! Very politically correct!\" Jo snipped.",
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"To speak or say in a snippish manner."
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"ref": "1967, Elizabeth George Speare, The Prospering, page 293",
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"text": "That wholesale auction lot was a snip at $10."
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"(informal) Something acquired for a low price; a bargain."
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"ref": "2010, Ellen Renner, Castle of Shadows, Hachette UK, published 2010",
"text": "'Might as well come out now, you little snip, from wherever you be hiding!'",
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"A small or weak person, especially a young one."
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"(informal) A small or weak person, especially a young one."
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"(onomatopoeia) An act or sound of snipping, the sound produced by scissors."
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"ref": "1835, William Hamilton Maxwell, My Life, page 283",
"text": "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 […]",
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"ref": "1680, Roger L'Estrange, The Free-Born Subject, Or, the Englishmans Birthright Asserted Against All Tyrannical Vsvrpations Either in Church or State",
"text": "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",
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"ref": "1850, Charles Kingsley, Alton Locke",
"text": "[…] you fool, why did you let out that you were a snip?\"\n\"I am not ashamed of my trade.”",
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"(obsolete, slang) A tailor."
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"A white marking on a horse's muzzle, between the nostrils."
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"ref": "2010, Ellen Renner, Castle of Shadows, Hachette UK, published 2010",
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"ref": "1680, Roger L'Estrange, The Free-Born Subject, Or, the Englishmans Birthright Asserted Against All Tyrannical Vsvrpations Either in Church or State",
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"text": "[…] you fool, why did you let out that you were a snip?\"\n\"I am not ashamed of my trade.”",
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "rjazane",
"sense": "the act of snipping",
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"neuter"
],
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{
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"word": "hyvä kauppa"
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{
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"code": "fr",
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{
"code": "it",
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"sense": "sound produced by scissors",
"word": "zac"
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{
"code": "ro",
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"sense": "sound produced by scissors",
"word": "țac"
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{
"code": "tr",
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"sense": "sound produced by scissors",
"word": "kırt"
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