clippedadj.
/klɪpt/ Cut as with shears or scissors, cut short, spec. having the hair or wool shorn, etc. Also of speech: (a) mumbled or indistinct (see clip v.2 5b); (b) pronounced quickly, distinctly, and without drawling.
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the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > [adjective] > inarticulate indistinct > of speech
thicka1398
clipped1483
unlanguaged1677
slurred1746
slithering1840
slurring1848
mushmouth1902
mushmouthed1909
slurry1937
side-of-the-mouth1939
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > cutting > [adjective] > cutting off or away (with an instrument) > cut off or cut with an instrument
forcedc1440
pared1440
clipped1483
well-shaven1542
chipped1562
shared1598
slit1611
snipped1611
circumcised1664
neat-cut1770
whittled1792
sliced1874
skived1875
the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > people with styles of hair > [adjective] > cut or shaved
nottOE
shavenc1330
rounded?a1439
clipped1483
poll-shorn1556
notched1597
nott-pated1598
well-shaved1600
shaveling1607
nott-headed1612
cropped-eared1641
round-headed1641
polled1653
crop-eared1680
lop-eared1798
shaved1837
crop-headed1842
county-cropped1849
cropped1856
colled1877
crop-haired1879
prison-cropped1882
bob-haired1923
bobbed-haired1928
bobbed-hair1953
slap-headed1994
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > [adjective] > branded or marked > shear-marked
clipped1680
clip-marked1683
shear-marked1696
society > trade and finance > money > mutilating coin > [adjective]
rounged1532
minished1590
sheared1616
detrited1697
washed1711
clipped1719
sweated1869
the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > curtailed
abridgeda1382
docked1408
defalcate1531
decurted?1550
curtailed1561
limited1590
minced1609
clipped1788
razeed1821
shorn1853
restricted1856
curtate1875
fine-cut1894
the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > longitudinal extent > shortness > [adjective] > shortened > (as if) by cutting
cuttedc1386
docked1408
stucked?a1439
trunked1552
cropped1558
lopped1570
short-cut1596
stumped1598
dubbeda1661
truncated1704
truncate1717
well-cropped1805
clipped1870
junky1873
lobbed1883
crop1957
the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > [adjective] > having pleasing speech or eloquent > pronounced clearly or distinctly
clipped1931
1483 Cath. Angl. 67 Clippyd, Intonsus.
1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (vi. 4) This clipped maner of speeche.
1680 London Gaz. No. 1549/4 Stollen or strayed..a Black Mare..a clipp'd mark on both Buttocks.
1719 W. Wood Surv. Trade (ed. 2) 346 If the Mint should Coin clip'd Money.
1788 Ld. Auckland Corr. (1861) II. 71 Straight alleys and clipped hedges.
1807 G. Crabbe Parish Reg. iii, in Poems 109 A clipt French-Puppy.
1870 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. (1873) 1st Ser. 153 Jeremy Taylor..compels his clipped fancy to the conventual discipline of prose.
1931 T. H. Pear Voice & Personality 30 A crisp, concise and close-clipped pronunciation.
1946 R. Lehmann Gipsy's Baby and Other Stories 115 John's voice came through, more than usually clipped.
1959 Listener 2 July 12/2 It is a tone that can only be described (nonsensically) as ‘toneless’, very flat, completely unemotional, casual and clipped.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1483