different between mow vs snip

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English mowen (participle mowen), from Old English m?wan (past tense m?ow, past participle m?wen), from Proto-Germanic *m?an? (compare Dutch maaien, German mähen, Danish meje, Swedish meja), from Proto-Indo-European *h?meh?- (“to mow, reap”); compare Hittite [script needed] (?ameš?a, “spring/early summer”, literally “mowing time”), Latin met? (“I harvest, mow”), Ancient Greek ???? (amá?, “I mow”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /m??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /mo?/
• Rhymes: -??

Verb

mow (third-person singular simple present mows, present participle mowing, simple past mowed, past participle mowed or mown)

1. (transitive) To cut down grass or crops.

2. (transitive) To cut down or slaughter in great numbers.
   • 1915, Captain Robert Palmer, Letters from Mesopotamia

     In the afternoon they attacked again, in close formation: our artillery mowed them, but they came on and on, […]

Derived terms

• mow down
• remow

Related terms

• aftermath, math
• mead, meadow

Translations

Noun

mow (plural mows)

1. The act of mowing (a garden, grass etc.)

2. (cricket) A shot played with a sweeping or scythe-like motion.
   • 1828, Sporting Magazine (volume 21? 71? page 10)

     I consider it would engender a stiff, tame, cautious mode of play, with only now and then a mow, or a chopping hit.

Etymology 2

Middle English mowe, from Middle French moue (“lip, pout”), from Old French moe (“grimace”), from Frankish *mauwa (“pout, protruding lip”), from Proto-Germanic *maww? (“muff, sleeve”). Akin to Middle Dutch mouwe (“protruding lip”). Cognate to moue (“pout”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /m??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /mo?/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

mow (plural mows)

1. (now only dialectal) A scornful grimace; a wry face. [from 14th c.]
   • , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.212:

     Those that paint them dying […] delineate the prisoners spitting in their executioners faces, and making mowes at them.

Translations

Verb

mow (third-person singular simple present mows, present participle mowing, simple past and past participle mowed)

1. To make grimaces, mock.
   • 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 2 scene 2

     For every trifle are they set upon me: / Sometime like apes that mow and chatter at me, / And after bite me;

   • 1848, Henry Walter (editor), William Tyndale (original author), Doctrinal Treatises and Introductions to Different Portions of the Holy Scriptures

     Nodding, becking, and mowing.

Translations

Etymology 3

Old English m?ga. Cognate with Norwegian muge (“heap, crowd, flock”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma??/
• Rhymes: -a?

Noun

mow (plural mows)

1. (now regional) A stack of hay, corn, beans or a barn for the storage of hay, corn, beans.
2. The place in a barn where hay or grain in the sheaf is stowed.

Translations

Verb

mow (third-person singular simple present mows, present participle mowing, simple past and past participle mowed)

1. (agriculture) To put into mows.

Translations

Etymology 4

Noun

mow (plural mows)

1. Alternative form of mew (a seagull)

See also

• Mow in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

• OMW, WMO

Middle English

Etymology 1

Feom Old English magan (“to use, to win, to be able to”).

Verb

mow

1. Alternative form of mowen (“to be able to”)

Etymology 2

Feom Old English m?wan (“to mow”).

Verb

mow

1. Alternative form of mowen (“to mow”)

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sn?p/
• Homophone: SNP
• Rhymes: -?p

Verb

snip (third-person singular simple present snips, present participle snipping, simple past and past participle snipped)

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

2. To reduce the price of a product, to create a snip.
3. To break off; to snatch away.

   • The captain seldom ordered anything out of the ship's stores […] but I snipt […] some of it for my own share.

4. (informal) To circumcise.
   • 2001, David Cohen, The Father's Book: Being a Good Dad in the 21st Century, John WIley & Sons Ltd (2001), ?ISBN, page 72:

     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.

   • 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, page 150:

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

   • 2012, Tom Hickman, God's Doodle: The Life and Times of the Penis, Square Peg (2012), ?ISBN, page 144:

     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.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:snip.
5. (Internet) To remove the irrelevant parts of quotations in the reply message.

Translations

Noun

snip (plural snips)

1. The act of snipping; cutting a small amount off of something.
2. A single cut with scissors, clippers, or similar tool.
3. Something acquired for a low price; a bargain.

   That wholesale lot on eBay was a snip at $10

4. A small amount of something; a pinch.
5. (definite, the snip, euphemistic) A vasectomy.
6. A small or weak person, especially a young one.
   • 2010, Ellen Renner, Castle of Shadows, Hachette UK, 2010 ?ISBN.

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

7. (dated) An impertinent or mischievous person.
   • 1835, William Hamilton Maxwell, My Life (page 283)

     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 […]

8. (obsolete) A share or portion; a snack.
   • 1680, Roger L'Estrange, The Free-Born Subject, Or, the Englishmans Birthright Asserted Against All Tyrannical Vsvrpations Either in Church or State

     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

9. (obsolete, slang) A tailor.

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Translations

Derived terms

• snipper
• snippy

References

Anagrams

• Insp, NIPs, NPIs, Nips, PINs, PSNI, nips, pins, spin

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch snippe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sn?p/
• Hyphenation: snip
• Rhymes: -?p

Noun

snip f (plural snippen, diminutive snipje n)

1. A snipe or woodcock, thin-beaked bird of the genera Gallinago, Scolopax, Lymnocryptes, Limnodromus and Coenocorypha.
2. (informal, Netherlands) A 100 guilders banknote.

Derived terms

• houtsnip
• poelsnip
• snipverkouden
• watersnip

Descendants

• Afrikaans: snip
• ? Sranan Tongo: snepi