English

Noun

snippeting ‎(uncountable)

1. Act of snippeting, excerpting.
   • 1864, “Mr. Nassau Senior”, Littell’s Living Age, Volume 82, p. 230:

     Yet the information obtained is immense, and will, we suspect, when published in a readable form,— for snippeting spoils Mr. Senior's work,— have an important influence over public opinion.

2. Sound of snipping, as in scissors.
   • 1902, Beatrix Potter, The Tailor of Gloucester:

     There was a snippeting of scissors, and snappeting of thread …

   • 2005, Rafi Zabor, I, Wabenzi, p. 294:

     … sounded like the working of a pair of fine silver scissors snippeting a measured line along the margin of the dark …

Synonyms

• (producing extract): excerpting

Verb

snippeting

1. present participle of excerpt

See also

• clipping
• trimming