Clipped
[klɪpt]
Definition
(adj.) (of speech) having quick short sounds; 'a clipped upper-class accent' .
(adj.) cut or trimmed by clipping; 'a handsome man with a clipped moustache'; 'clipped hedges'; 'close-clipped lawns'; 'a clipped poodle' .
Typist: Shelby--From WordNet
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Clip
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Examples
- She talked away all the time the man clipped, and diverted my mind nicely. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- I climbed a near tree: the level sands bounded by a pine forest, and the sea clipped round by the horizon, was all that I could discern. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The striking points in his appearance were his buff waistcoat, short-clipped blond hair, and neutral physiognomy. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Their carbines were clipped to the frame of the bicycles. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- He went away chewing his lips to get at the ends of his short clipped moustache. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- They perceived that the Legislative Assembly, so clipped of all experience, must certainly be a politically incompetent body. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- She clipped the bouquet which George had brought her, and gave fresh water to the flowers, and read over the letter which he had sent her. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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