snippa

Swedish

Etymology

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

Noun

snippa c

(childish, colloquial) Female genitalia.

Declension

Declension of snippa
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	snippa	snippan	snippor	snipporna
Genitive	snippas	snippans	snippors	snippornas

Synonyms

References

↑ Leah Kaminsky (4 June 2018), “The case for renaming women's body parts”, in BBC Future‎, 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.

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[1] Leah Kaminsky (4 June 2018), “The case for renaming women's body parts”, in BBC Future‎, 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.