snip – English noun declension

Noun: snip

Singular	snip
Plural	snips

It was true about the fanmaking; the table and floor were littered with snips of paper. [1967, Elizabeth George Speare, The Prospering, page 293:]
That wholesale auction lot was a snip at $10.
'Might as well come out now, you little snip, from wherever you be hiding!' [2010, Ellen Renner, Castle of Shadows, Hachette UK, published 2010, →ISBN:]
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 […] [1835, William Hamilton Maxwell, My Life, page 283:]
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 [1680, Roger L'Estrange, The Free-Born Subject, Or, the Englishmans Birthright Asserted Against All Tyrannical Vsvrpations Either in Church or State:]
[…] you fool, why did you let out that you were a snip?"
"I am not ashamed of my trade.” [1850, Charles Kingsley, Alton Locke:]

From Dutch snippen (“to snip; shred”) or Low German snippen (“to snip; shred”), of imitative origin. Compare snap.

English Nouns snub.

English noun forms of snip