knippen.
to cut with scissors
Meaning & usage
to cut with scissors
to cut (remove an item and place it in memory for later use)
to make a pinching movement, especially with one's eyelids; thus, to blink
to snap one's fingers
Where this word comes from
From Middle Dutch knippen, further etymology unknown. Directly related only with Middle Low German knippen. Probably onomatopoeic. The sense “to blink” may, at least in part, be due to conflation with knijpen (“to squeeze”). Compare de ogen toeknijpen (“to screw up one’s eyes”); also Low German knippen and kniepen both in the sense of “to blink”, German kniepen. See also Dutch knipperen.
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