| 释义 |
snicket north. dial.|ˈsnɪkɪt|
[Origin obscure.]
A narrow passage between houses, an alley-way.
For further senses of the word see Eng. Dial. Dict.
1898B. Kirkby Lakeland Words 136 Snicket, a narrow passage between buildings. 1947I. Brown Say the Word 65 We have vennels, gunnels, and snickets in our northern towns. 1957R. Hoggart Uses of Literacy i. ii. 52 Street after regular street of shoddily uniform houses intersected by a dark pattern of ginnels and snickets (alley⁓ways) and courts. 1968B. Hines Kestrel for Knave 31 He cut down a snicket between two houses, out into the fields. 1981J. Stubbs Ironmaster xx. 276 We are cramming poor people into ginnels and snickets and foetid courts. |