snipping

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Give me all the shreds and snippings you can spare me. — Imaginary Conversations and Poems: A Selection, Walter Savage Landor
Every one's head was in a whirl from the snipping of the scissors, the rattle of the sewing-machine, the smell of hot irons, and the caprices of the dressmaker, a huffy and nervous lady. — The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
‘Alicia.’ ‘Yes, papa.’ ‘What have you been doing?’ ‘Snipping, stitching, cutting, and contriving, papa.’ ‘Where is the magic fish-bone?’ ‘In my pocket, papa.’ ‘I thought you had lost it?’ ‘O, no, papa.’ ‘Or forgotten it?’ ‘No, indeed, papa.’ After that, she ran up-stairs to the duchess, and told her what had passed, and told her the secret over again; and the duchess shook her flaxen curls, and laughed with her rosy lips. — Holiday Romance, Charles Dickens

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