snip

leikata

leikkaaminen

palanen, hitunen

saksia To cut with short sharp actions, as with scissors.

I dont want you to take much hair off; just snip my mullet off.''

The captain seldom ordered anything out of the ship's stores (..) but I snipped some of it for my own share.

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.

His children, however, were not snipped, possibly because Princess Diana was opposed to the practice, which is out of fashion in England.

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.

That wholesale lot on eBay was a snip at $10

'Might as well come out now, you little snip, from wherever you be hiding!'

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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