snip (n.) Look up snip at Dictionary.com
1550s, "small piece of cut-out cloth," probably from Dutch or Low German snippen "to snip, shred," of imitative origin. Snip-snap-snorum, the card game, is 1755, from Low German.
snip (v.) Look up snip at Dictionary.com
1580s, from snip (n.). Related: Snipped; snipping.