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Word Origins Dictionary
- bill (v.)




- "to send someone a bill of charge," 1864, from bill (n.1). Related: Billed; billing.
- snipe (n.)




- long-billed marsh bird, early 14c., from Old Norse -snipa in myrisnipa "moor snipe;" perhaps a common Germanic term (compare Old Saxon sneppa, Middle Dutch snippe, Dutch snip, Old High German snepfa, German Schnepfe "snipe," Swedish snäppa "sandpiper"), perhaps originally "snipper." The Old English name was snite, which is of uncertain derivation. An opprobrious term (see guttersnipe) since c. 1600.
- sora (n.)




- small, short-billed North American bird species, the Carolina rail, 1705, probably from a native name.