snip-snap
English
Etymology
Reduplication of snap.
Noun
snip-snap (plural snip-snaps)
- A tart dialogue with quick replies.
- Alexander Pope
- snip-snap short, and interruption smart
- 1933, American Medicine (volume 39, page 73)
- The daily snip-snaps and hubbubs between the cross-purposed couple accentuated that tendency in her. After each altercation Mrs. Coley was seized with an hysterical attack, and my services were needed.
- Alexander Pope
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for snip-snap in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)