snuppe
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Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Deverbal from snuppe (“to (quickly) chop or cut”), related to snubbe (“to shorten, cut”), from Old Norse snubba. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. .
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ʉpːə
- Hyphenation: snup‧pe
Noun
snuppe f or m (definite singular snuppa or snuppen, indefinite plural snupper, definite plural snuppene)
- (colloquial) a chick (a young, typically attractive, woman or teenage girl)
- Synonym: rype
- 1893, Jonas Lie, Niobe, page 205:
- «Men saa var det dog et nok saa snilt indfald af mig, vil du bekjende det, snuppen min.»
- "But then it was quite a kind idea of mine, you'll admit it, my little girl."
- 1990, Torill Thorstad Hauger, Lincolns blå soldat:
- Big Tom [dro] til Junaiten, gutter. Der borte … skal det vel bli mulig å få seg ei søt lita snuppe
- Big Tom to the US, boys. Over there... it should probably be possible to get a sweet little chick
- 1994, Anne Holt, Salige er de som tørster…, page 95:
- driver du med for tida, snuppa, spurte Billy T. og la armen rundt henne
- what are you up to at the moment, young girl, asked Billy T. and put his arm around her
- (endearing, in feminine definite form snuppa) a term of endearment, to address a young beautiful girl, often a girlfriend.
- kom her da, snuppa mi!
- come here then, my girl!