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clipping

1 3.7

A word made by shortening a longer word like exam for examination

noun
/ˈklɪpɪŋ/

Specialized

: acortamiento

Examples

So start off clipping.

Blog text (15)
Each clipping can be assigned a custom hotkey for quick pasting into any running program.

Blog text (9)
By the way he talks sometimes, I bet he's planning on some homunculus, a curled man the size of a fingernail clipping, just like him except smaller and wizened, caught up in my tissue, getting ready to spring.

Fiction book (1999)
The word 'chef' is a clipping of the longer word 'chef de cuisine.'
Many examples of clipping can be found in modern slang, like 'lab' from 'laboratory.'
In linguistics, a clipping is when a longer word is shortened to create a new form.

Compounds

newspaper clipping

11 2.3

A small piece cut from a newspaper that people keep to remember something

press clipping

Literature

3 3.2

A short article cut from a newspaper or magazine kept for reference

How Short

abbreviation

18 2.4

clipping

Specialized

1 3.7

contraction

13 3.2

Surface Forms

clipping singular

clippings plural

Morphology

clipping = clip (transparent) = clip + ing

The linguistic sense 'a shortened word' is a direct metaphorical application of 'clip' (to cut) and is predictably formed with -ing.

Etymology

Clipping comes from clip 'to cut off' and in language it means a word made by cutting part of a longer word, like 'exam' from 'examination'. So a clipping is simply a shortened word.