snippage

Noun

snippage (countable and uncountable, plural snippages)

1. Something that has been snipped away.
   • "You will have to snip both front and back and then pick out your "snippage" with your fingernails."1964, Hope Hanley, NEELEPOINT - Page 143
2. (Internet) Removal of irrelevant quoted material from a message being quoted in a reply.
   • vast snippage of past daughter difficulties with resultant good ending.2001 October 11, Vapid Shell Me, “this is what happened when my daughter had difficulties and I continued to love her”, in soc.singles (Usenet), archived from the original on 06 Aug 2026
   • "Please remember that every time you send an email to the SLUG lists, it is multiplied out to everyone on the list, *including* people who subscribe on digest mode. Lack of snippage is particularly annoying for them."2001 November, User: invisible ink <jdub@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Subject: [chat] Sweet baby jebus, the snippage!

   Synonyms:

   snip, snippectomy, snipping