snippa

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Swedish

Etymology

Partly derived from snopp (“penis”), the male equivalent. Gained mainstream popularity in Sweden since the early 21st century.^[1]^[2] Supported due to a need for neutral terminology.

Noun

snippa c

(childish, colloquial) the female genitalia
Antonym: snopp

Declension

Declension of snippa

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	snippa	snippas
singular	definite	snippan	snippans
plural	indefinite	snippor	snippors
plural	definite	snipporna	snippornas

Synonyms

References

^ Leah Kaminsky (2018 June 4) “The case for renaming women's body parts”, in BBC Future‎^[1], BBC:
In 2000, social worker Anna Kostztovics was concerned at the lack of fundamental gender equality embedded in her native Swedish language. She pointed out that boys had a non-sexualised word for their genitals – ‘snopp’, a widely-used term roughly equivalent to the English term ‘willy’ – while girls did not. She popularised the use of a new word, ‘snippa’, as the female equivalent.
^ Richard Orange (2015 August 1) “Sweden invents a word for girls’ genitals equivalent to ‘willy’ for boys”, in The Guardian

Anagrams

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[1] Leah Kaminsky (2018 June 4) “The case for renaming women's body parts”, in BBC Future‎^[1], BBC:
In 2000, social worker Anna Kostztovics was concerned at the lack of fundamental gender equality embedded in her native Swedish language. She pointed out that boys had a non-sexualised word for their genitals – ‘snopp’, a widely-used term roughly equivalent to the English term ‘willy’ – while girls did not. She popularised the use of a new word, ‘snippa’, as the female equivalent.

[Guardian-2] Richard Orange (2015 August 1) “Sweden invents a word for girls’ genitals equivalent to ‘willy’ for boys”, in The Guardian

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