snick

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John is just about to tell him to get a move on when he feels a gentle tug at the crown of his head and hears a snick-snick sound as the blades open and close.

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  1. transitive verb To cut with short strokes; snip: snicked off a corner of the material.
  2. transitive verb To make a small cut in; nick.
  3. transitive verb To cause (something) to click: I snicked the door shut.
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  • All of these effects were trundled out to the shed in the yard where some were put in place and others put into ironbound chests of wood that locked with a snick-clack sound like jackdaws laughing. —  F ;SF; - vol 098 issue 01 - January 2000
  • One was the splash of something heavy falling into the water; the other was a noise like the snick of a lock when a door quietly closes fast. —  The Lord of the Rings
  • Then snick, her head was falling into the puddles of blood like a sacrificed sheep's. —  THE YEARS OF RICE AND SALT - Kim Stanley Robinson
  • I could hear the tiny snick, tic of stingers firing ineffectually against her silver scales. —  F ;SF; - vol 086 issue 03 - March 1994
  • Followed by the snick-snick of two metal objects faintly colliding. —  Mistress of Justice
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  1. Origin unknown.

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  1. Scots also sneck, English dial. snig; from Icelandic snikka = Norwegian snikka = Swedish dial. snikka, nick, cut, especially as a mason or carpenter; cf. Swedish snickare = Danish snedker, a joiner; Swedish snickra = Danish snedkre, do joiners' work; Dutch snik, a hatchet, a sharp tool.
  2. from snick, v.
 

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