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ˈsneeshing Sc. (Ir.) and north. dial.
Forms: α. 8 snishon, -en, 9 -an (8 snichen, snitian), 8–9 snishin(g. β. 7, 9 sneeshon, 9 -an, 8–9 sneeshin(g, sneeshin', 9 sneechin(g, etc.
[Alteration of sneezing vbl. n. 2 b, perhaps after Highland or Irish pronunciation: cf. Sc. Gael. snaoisean, Ir. snaoisín.]
1. Snuff.
α1714R. Smith Poems (1853) 12 Thy vile snichen, and thy brose. 1720Pennecuik Helicon 65 A Mill with Snitian, to pepper her Nose. 1724Ramsay Tea-t. Misc. (1733) I. 91 A Mill of good snishing to prie. 1761in Hull Select Lett. (1778) I. 314, I have sent you a little Provision of the best Preston-Pans Snuff,..with one Bottle of Highland Snishon. 1818Scott Br. Lamm. xii, Bid her fill my mill wi' snishing. 1847Le Fanu T. O'Brien 213 Take a pinch iv the snishin.
β1808Jamieson, Sneeshin,..the vulgar name for snuff. 1816Scott Antiq. xxi, A' the siller I need is just to buy tobacco and sneeshin. 1824― Redgauntlet ch. vii, Will ye try my sneeshing? 1900Crockett Little Anna Mark xxi, The noblest sneeshan in the worl'.
2. A pinch of snuff. Chiefly with negatives, used to denote something of very slight value or significance.
1686G. Stuart Joco-ser. Disc. 13, I drew my Box, and teuk a sneeshon. 1723W. Meston Knt. of Kirk Poems (1767) 25 Else they are not worth a snishen. 1787–in Scottish use (Eng. Dial. Dict.).
3. attrib., as sneeshing-box, sneeshing-horn, sneeshing-mill or sneeshing-mull.
1717Ramsay Elegy Lucky Wood x, To the sma' hours we aft sat still, Nick'd round our toasts and snishing-mill. 1780W. Forbes Dominie i. 79 His fishing-wand, his sneeshing⁓box. 1786Burns Twa Dogs 133 The luntan pipe, an' sneeshin mill, Are handed round wi' right guid will. 1816Scott Antiq. xxiii, I could take my aith to that sneeshing⁓mull amang a thousand. 1825Jamieson Suppl., Sneeshin-Horn, a horn used for holding snuff. 1858Porteous Souter Johnny 28 I'm Souter Johnny's sneeshin'-Box. |