Snip vs Tittle - What's the difference?
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To cut with short sharp actions, as with scissors.
To reduce the price of a product, to create a snip.
To break off; to snatch away.
* Daniel Defoe
(informal) To circumcise.
* 2001 , David Cohen, The Father's Book: Being a Good Dad in the 21st Century , John WIley & Sons Ltd (2001), ISBN 0470841338,
* 2008 , Ilene Schneider, Talk Dirty Yiddish: Beyond Drek: The Curses, Slang, and Street Lingo You Need to Know When You Speak Yiddish , Adams Media (2008), ISBN 9781598698565,
* 2012 , Tom Hickman, God's Doodle: The Life and Times of the Penis , Square Peg (2012), ISBN 9780224095532,
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The act of snipping; cutting a small amount off of something.
Something acquired for a low price; a bargain.
A small amount of something; a pinch.
A vasectomy.
A small or weak person, especially a young one.
* 2010 — Ellen Renner, Castle of Shadows , Hachette UK, 2010 ISBN 1408313723.
(obsolete) A share or portion; a snack.
(obsolete, slang) A tailor.
A small, insignificant amount (of something); a vanishing scintilla; a measly crumb; a minute speck.
Any small dot, stroke, or diacritical mark, especially if part of a letter, or if a letter-like abbreviation; in particular, the dots over the Latin letters (i) and (j).
* 1590 , Bales, The Arte of Brachygraphie (quoted in Daid King's 2001 'The Ciphers of the Monks'):
* 1965 , P. A. Marijnen, The Encyclopedia of the Bible :
* 1987 , Andrea van Arkel-De Leeuw van Weenen, Möðruvallabók, AM 132 Fol: Index and concordance , page xii:
*:: (the page calls both "a superscript sign (hooklike)" and also a diacritical abbreviation of ") "tittles" )
* 2008 , Roy Blount, Alphabet juice: the energies, gists, and spirits of letters :
As nouns the difference between snip and tittle
is that snip is the act of snipping; cutting a small amount off of something while tittle is a small, insignificant amount (of something); a vanishing scintilla; a measly crumb; a minute speck.As a verb snip
is to cut with short sharp actions, as with scissors.As a proper noun Tittle is
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English
Verb
(en-verb)- I don't 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.
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- 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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- 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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- 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.
Noun
(en noun)- That wholesale lot on eBay was a snip at $10
- 'Might as well come out now, you little snip, from wherever you be hiding!'
- (Nares)
- (Charles Kingsley)
Derived terms
* snipper * snippyAnagrams
* * * *tittle
English
(wikipedia tittle)Noun
(en noun)- The foure pricks or tittles' are these. The first is a full prick or period. The second is a comma or crooked ' tittle .
- The words "jot" and "tittle " in this passage refer to diacritic marks, that is, dashes, dots, or commas added to a letter to accentuate the pronunciation.
- A tittle' is more or less the same thing (the dot over an i, for instance), except that it can be traced back to Medieval Latin for a little mark over or under a letter, such as an accent ague or a cedilla. I don't know whether an umlaut is one or two '''tittles'''. Maybe it's a jot and a ' tittle side by side.
