snappingn.

/ˈsnapɪŋ/

Etymology: < snap v.

1. The action of the verb in various senses:

a. In intransitive senses.

ΘΚΠ

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. G8^v 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.

ΘΚΠ

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.

ΘΚΠ

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. E3^v 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. E3^v 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.).

ΘΚΠ

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.

ΘΚΠ

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.

a. That snaps or breaks suddenly.

ΘΚΠ

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.

ΘΚΠ

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.

a. That snaps with the jaws or beak.

ΘΚΠ

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.)

ΘΚΠ

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.

ΘΚΠ

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.

ΘΚΠ

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).

单词	snapping
释义	snappingn. /ˈsnapɪŋ/ Etymology: < snap v. 1. The action of the verb in various senses: a. In intransitive senses. ΘΚΠ 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. G8^v 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. E3^v 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. E3^v 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.). ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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.) ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. 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