snipe

Etymology 1
From, a type of bird, from , as in. Akin to 🇨🇬.

The verb originated in the 1770s among soldiers in British India where a hunter skilled enough to kill the elusive snipe was dubbed a "sniper". The term sniper was first attested in 1824 in the sense of the word "sharpshooter".

Noun

 * 1) Any of various limicoline game birds of the genera,  and  in the family , having a long, slender, nearly straight beak.
 * 2) A fool; a blockhead.
 * 3) A shot fired from a concealed place.
 * 4)  A member of the engineering department on a ship.
 * 5)  A goal.
 * 1)  A goal.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: snip
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian:
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: becadell
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 沙錐鳥
 * Cornish: kiogh
 * Czech:
 * Danish: bekkasin
 * Dutch:
 * Faroese: snípa
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician: aguaneta, chiva, gacha
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: חרטומן
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Irish: naoscach
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: тауқұдірет
 * Korean:
 * Latvian: sloka
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: шљука
 * Malay:
 * Moroccan Amazigh: ⵜⴰⴼⵓⵍⵍⵓⵙⵜ ⵏ ⵡⴰⵎⴰⵏ, ⵜⴰⴼⵓⵍⵍⵓⵙⵜ ⵏ ⵡⴰⵎⴰⵏ
 * Navajo: tábąąsdísí
 * Norman: bécassine
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: snipe
 * Nynorsk: snipe
 * Polish:, , bekas kszyk
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Slovene: sloka
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: bjakut
 * Spanish:, , caica
 * Swedish:
 * Tatar: чуллык
 * Thai: นกปากซ่อม
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese: dẽ giun
 * Welsh: gïach


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:, ,


 * Bulgarian: изстрел от засада
 * Finnish: salalaukaus
 * Hungarian: orvlövés


 * Finnish: laivamekaanikko

Verb

 * 1)  To hunt snipe.
 * 2)  To shoot at individuals from a concealed place.
 * 3)  To shoot with a sniper rifle.
 * 4)  To watch a timed online auction and place a winning bid against (the current high bidder) at the last possible moment.
 * 5) * 2003, "Weird Al" Yankovic,  (song)
 * I am the type who is liable to snipe you With two seconds left to go, whoa.
 * 1)  To nose (a log) to make it drag or slip easily in skidding.
 * 2)  To score a goal.
 * 3) To move the ball quickly in a different direction.
 * 1)  To nose (a log) to make it drag or slip easily in skidding.
 * 2)  To score a goal.
 * 3) To move the ball quickly in a different direction.
 * 1) To move the ball quickly in a different direction.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: стрелям от засада
 * Japanese:
 * Romanian: trage din ascunziș
 * Spanish:
 * Thai: ซุ่มยิง


 * Japanese:
 * Spanish:
 * Thai: ซุ่มยิง

Etymology 2
Probably from or a cognate

Noun

 * 1)  A cigarette butt.
 * 2) An end of a log remaining after timber has been cut away - sometimes referred to as a snipe-end.
 * 3) An animated promotional logo during a television show.
 * 4) A strip of copy announcing some late breaking news or item of interest, typically placed in a print advertisement in such a way that it stands out from the ad.
 * 5) A bottle of wine measuring 0.1875 liters, one fourth the volume of a standard bottle; a quarter bottle or piccolo.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: fimppi,


 * Finnish:

Etymology 3
Either from or a figurative development from Etymology 1.

Noun

 * 1) A sharp, clever answer; sarcasm.
 * 2) A note or sticker attached to an existing poster to provide further information (e.g. an event is sold out), political criticism, etc.

Verb

 * 1)  To make malicious, underhand remarks or attacks.
 * 2)  To attach a note or sticker to (an existing poster) to provide further information, political criticism, etc.
 * 1)  To attach a note or sticker to (an existing poster) to provide further information, political criticism, etc.

Etymology
From (“moor snipe”). Akin to 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) any of various birds of the family, the s and sandpipers