? Obs. [Cf. prec.] With snip and snap; with a snipping, snapping sound.
1588. Shaks., L. L. L., V. i. 63. A sweet tutch, a quicke venewe of wit, snip snap, quick & home.
1596. Nashe, Saffron Walden, Ep. Ded. To torment him, and deal as snip snap snappishly with him, as euer he was delt withall.
1602. Middleton, Blurt, Master-Constable, II. i. C j b. My Sister shootes him off snipsnap at her pleasure.
1672. Villiers (Dk. Buckhm.), Rehearsal, III. i. (Arb.), 67. For you shall see ’em come in upon one another snip snap … as fast as can be.
1788. L. Williams, trans. Berquin’s Children’s Friend, I. 45. I will … come with my bill-hook, and snip-snap, cut all those briars down to the ground.
