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单词 snapping
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snappingn.

/ˈsnapɪŋ/
Etymology: < snap v.
1. The action of the verb in various senses:
a. In intransitive senses.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > discourtesy > [noun] > curtness or brusqueness
abruptness1591
snappishness1598
bluntness1608
cuttedness1622
briskness1668
bluntishness1691
snappinga1734
brusquerie1752
off-handedness1823
brusqueness1859
bluffness1863
curtness1882
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sharp or hard sound > [noun] > crack or snap
crackingc1290
cracka1400
crickling1584
crick-crack1600
snap1611
snapping1812
crickle1914
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > [noun]
breachOE
breakingc975
brusure1382
breaka1400
crasure1413
chininga1420
bursting1487
bruisinga1500
fraction?a1560
chinking1565
springingc1595
infraction1623
disruption1646
abruption1654
diruption1656
chapping1669
chopping1669
fracturea1676
rumple1746
breakage1775
disrupture1785
fracturing1830
disruptment1834
snapping1891
fractionation1926
1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. G8v When they come to the cutting of the haire, what snipping & snapping of the cycers is there.
a1734 R. North Examen (1740) Pref. 14 Such Snapping and Quarrelling would not clearly answer his Book.
1812 M. Cutler Jrnl. 20 Jan. in W. P. Cutler & J. P. Cutler Life, Jrnls. & Corr. M. Cutler (1888) II. 196 The only way to account for the fire is by the snapping of the hemlock wood.
1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 196 If a person not electrified held his hand near the tube while it was rubbed, the snapping was very sensible.
1891 C. Roberts Adrift in Amer. 47 The snapping and snarling [of wolves], varied by a howl.
1891 Daily News 7 Nov. 6/4 In consequence of the snapping of an axle.
b. In transitive senses. Also with up.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [noun] > using snap-hook
snapping1736
snap-angling1792
snap-fishing1792
the mind > possession > taking > seizing > [noun] > quickly or hurriedly
snatchinga1529
snatch1587
snap1631
snapping1860
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > surprise, unexpectedness > [noun] > act of surprising > in order to obtain something
snapping1885
society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > procedure of parliament or national assembly > [noun] > taking action unexpectedly
snapping1885
1646 J. Hall Horæ Vacivæ 113 Hee playes not well at draughts, that onely can avoyd snapping when it comes to a pinch.
1736 Compl. Family-piece ii. ii. 269 You must remember in Snapping, that you never give a Fish Time to run.., but hook and draw him out directly.
1816 W. Scott Black Dwarf ii, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. I. 50 There's me, and my twa brothers,..will be wi' you..in the snapping of a flint.
1860 T. P. Thompson Audi Alteram Partem (1861) III. cxxxix. 115 An abiding arrangement, opening its capacious jaws for the snapping-up of the guilty.
1885 Law Rep. Chanc. Div. 29 453 There was no snapping of a judgment in the Irish action.
2. Thieves' cant. The proceeds of a theft or robbery; a share of stolen goods claimed by a snap. (Cf. snappage n.) Obsolete.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > stolen goods > [noun]
theft962
bribec1425
stoutheriec1440
booty1567
thievery1583
snapping1591
filcha1627
pilferagec1626
swag1794
stealing1839
stuff1865
score1914
hot stuff1924
1591 R. Greene Second Pt. Conny-catching sig. E3v When he hath the window open and spyes any fat snappings worth the Curbing, then streight he sets the Warp to watch.
1591 R. Greene Second Pt. Conny-catching sig. E3v Which stolne parcells, they in their Art call snappinges.
1602 S. Rowlands Greenes Ghost 16 They can no sooner draw a bung but these come in for their tenths, which they generally tearm snapping, or snappage.

Compounds

attributive, as snapping movement, snapping noise, snapping sound, etc.; snapping-point n. the point at which something will snap, or someone's strength or endurance will fail. snapping time n. (see quots.). snapping-tool n. (see quots.).
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the world > action or operation > adversity > [noun] > oppression, persecution, or affliction > point at which endurance fails
breaking-point1899
snapping-point1933
1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 193 A sharp pain..which was accompanied by a snapping noise.
1849 H. M. Noad Lect. Electr. (ed. 3) 30 A vivid spark will dart between them, accompanied by a sharp snapping sound.
1870 H. A. Nicholson Man. Zool. (1880) 375 Keeping up a constant snapping movement.
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2229/2 Snapping-tool, a stamping-tool used to force a plate into holes in a die.
1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining 229 Snapping Time, a short period of rest during a shift in which a collier takes his snap.
1933 G. Arthur Septuagenarian's Scrap Bk. 272 And like all good artists, like Sarah herself, she is a ‘traqueuse’ whose head feels hot and hands are cold on a first night, and who, with fever in the veins and nerves strained to snapping-point, will yet perhaps give the most inspired performance of the whole run.
1946 K. Tennant Lost Haven (1947) i. 20 To have not only mud but sticky honeycomb all over her shiny, clean linoleum was the snapping-point.
1982 India Today 15 Feb. 125/2 Relations between the Government and the judiciary are stretched to snapping point.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

snappingadj.

Etymology: formed as snapping n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsnapping.
1. Sharp, curt, snappish; peevish, petulant.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > discourtesy > [adjective] > curt or brusque
short1390
cutted1530
snappish1542
abrupt1578
stunt1581
blunt1590
brusquea1639
snapping1642
blatec1650
brisk1665
bluff1705
offhand1708
prerupt1727
squab1737
prompt1768
crisp1814
brief1818
stuntya1825
curt1831
snappy1834
bluffy1844
nebby1873
offhandish1886
nebsy1894
the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > irritability > irritable [adjective] > snappish or sharp-tongued
knappish1542
snappish1542
short1591
tart1601
tart-tongued1602
nimble-tongued1608
snapping1642
snapper1673
snip-snap1770
snaggy1781
twittya1825
snappy1834
sharp-tongued1837
snippy1848
snack1883
1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 4 His designe was..with quips and snapping adagies to vapour them out.
1708 S. Ockley Conquest of Syria 187 Omar..grew very angry: At last he wrote a short snapping sort of a Letter.
1746 Exmoor Scolding (ed. 3) i. 7 Go, ya rearing, snapping, tedious, cutted Snibblenose!
1880 ‘Ouida’ Moths III. 17 Snapping creatures are thought so sweetly sincere.
2.
a. That snaps or breaks suddenly.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > [adjective]
ruptive?a1425
chinking1578
breaking1597
chapping1610
obrumpent1656
disrumpent1657
snapping1823
fracturing1830
disrupting1849
disruptic1889
1823 C. Lamb in London Mag. Dec. 614/2 Marvellous escapes—..by orchard pranks, and snapping twigs.
1899 F. V. Kirby Sport E. Central Afr. xx. 218 Our ears were gladdened by the sound of a snapping branch.
b. That makes a sharp cracking or snapping noise.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sharp or hard sound > [adjective] > crack or snap
snappy1878
snapping1891
1891 Outlook Dec. 238/1 In the tender light of the rising sun he creeps downstairs, avoiding that squeaking board and that snapping step.
1942 W. Faulkner Go down, Moses & Other Stories 170 They emerged from the narrow, roofless tunnel of snapping and hissing cane, still galloping, onto the open ridge below.
1968 B. Hines Kestrel for Knave 132 Every time he tried to escape [from the shower] the three boys bounced him back, stinging him with their snapping towels as he retreated.
3.
a. That snaps with the jaws or beak.
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the world > animals > by habits or actions > [adjective] > that snaps
snappish1699
snapping1873
snappy1881
1873 G. C. Davies Mountain, Meadow & Mere xiv. 116 Such screaming and laughing as they pulled the struggling snapping brutes ashore.
1890 S. W. Baker Wild Beasts II. 29 The force of the snapping jaws would crush any human bone.
b. snapping-turtle, one or other of the North American freshwater tortoises of the family Chelydridæ, esp. Chelydra serpentina, the alligator terrapin. Also snapping tortoise. (Cf. snapper n.1 7c.)
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the world > animals > reptiles > order Chelonia (turtles and tortoises) > [noun] > suborder Cryptodira > family Chelydridae > member of (snapping-turtle)
snapping tortoise1784
snapper1796
alligator turtle1798
alligator tortoise1801
the world > animals > reptiles > order Chelonia (turtles and tortoises) > [noun] > suborder Cryptodira > family Chelydridae > chelydra serpentina (alligator terrapin)
torup1613
snapping-turtle1784
alligator terrapin1832
1784 J. F. D. Smyth Tour U.S.A. I. 338 One kind of them bites very fiercely when incensed..; these are called Snapping Turtles.
1808 T. Ashe Trav. Amer. 1806 II. 234 The Indians call this by a name which implies the snapping tortoise.
1811 R. Sutcliff Trav. N. Amer. (1815) vi. 102 Here is also a great abundance of that kind of tortoise called the snapping turtle.
1828 Western Intelligencer (Hamilton, Ohio) 26 Dec. 1/4 A ‘Salt River Roarer’. One of these two fisted backwoodsmen, ‘half horse, half alligator, and a little touched with the snapping turtle’.
1840 Knickerbocker 16 54 The..snapping-tortoises, frogs, squirrels, and such small deer, are their flocks and herds.
1848 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms Snapping-Turtle, a reptile common to all parts of the United States, so named from its propensity to snap at everything within its reach.
1850 C. Lyell 2nd Visit U.S. (ed. 2) II. 205 On the shore of the lake we caught a tortoise, called here the snapping-turtle.
1884 F. W. True in G.B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 153 The more northern species, Chelydra serpentina, known everywhere throughout the United States as the ‘Snapping Turtle’.
c. snapping beetle (or bug, jack), snapping mackerel (see quots.); snapping shrimp, a shrimp of the family Alpheidæ, which uses its large chelæ to make a snapping noise; also called the pistol shrimp.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Scombroidei (mackerel) > [noun] > family Scombridae > member of genus Temnodon (skipjack)
horse1672
skipjack1703
snapping mackerel1861
skip mackerel1884
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Diversicornia > family Elateridae > member of (click-beetle)
snap-beetle1698
spring beetle1782
skipper1796
elater1813
skipjack1817
snap-bug1834
click1848
snapping beetle (or bug, jack)1861
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Malacostraca > division Thoracostraca > order Decapoda > suborder Macrura > miscellaneous or unspecified types of shrimp
beard1611
shrimplet1688
garnel1694
water shrimp1745
pandle1746
brine-shrimp1836
brine-worm1836
squilloid1852
well shrimp1853
glass-crab1855
shrimp1856
snapping shrimp1941
1861 Trans. Illinois Agric. Soc. (1865) 5 416 There is scarcely an individual..unacquainted with the Spring-beetles, or as they are often termed, ‘Jumping-Jacks’, ‘Snapping-Jacks’.
1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 93 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV These insects [sc. Elateridæ] are known in Europe by the common name of ‘skip-jacks’,..and in America as ‘snapping beetles’, and erroneously ‘snapping bugs’.
1884 G. B. Goode in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 433 The Bluefish, Pomatomus saltatrix,..[is] in some parts of New England called ‘Snapping Mackerel’ or ‘Snappers’.
1941 J. Steinbeck & E. F. Ricketts Sea of Cortez 194 Sponges and tunicates under which small crabs and snapping shrimps hid themselves.
1964 Oceanogr. & Marine Biol. 2 431 The clicking of snapping shrimp..is a form of ambient sound when one is concentrating on the sounds of fish.
4. Violent, severe, extreme; usually as quasi-adv.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > [adjective] > smarting or stinging
smartingOE
biting1340
stingingc1400
mordicant?a1425
pungitive?a1425
raw1590
pungent1598
stanging1602
stingyc1615
scorpiaca1670
verberous1688
shrewd1842
snapping1845
stounding1848
mordant1876
smartful1906
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > [adjective] > severe or violent (of weather or elements)
retheeOE
strongOE
stithc1100
snella1400
woodc1400
outrage?a1425
violentc1425
sternc1449
strainable1497
rigorous1513
stalwart1528
vehement1528
sore1535
sturdy1569
robustious1632
severe1676
beating1702
shaving1789
snorting1819
wroth1852
wrathy1872
snapping1876
vicious1882
1845 Knickerbocker 25 87 I've got a snapping head~ache.
1876 Wide Awake (Boston, Mass.) July 19/1 The night was snapping cold.
1905 K. D. Wiggin Rose o' River 93 The snapping cold weather and the depth to which the water was frozen were aiding it.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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