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snide, a. and n. colloq. (orig. Cant).|snaɪd|
Also snyde.
[Of obscure origin.]
A. adj.
1. Counterfeit, sham, bogus. Also more widely, inferior, worthless.
1859G. W. Matsell Vocabulum 83 Snide stuff, bad money. 1861J. Clay Prison Chaplain viii. 537 The observant and experienced E.R. says ‘The utterers of ‘Snide pewter’ (base silver) are almost all Irish.’ 1862Cornh. Mag. Nov. 652 [To] get ready for the trial, and look up the ‘snyde witnesses’. 1868Temple Bar XXIV. 538 Snyde..means counterfeit or bad. 1887F. Francis Saddle & Mocassin i. 3 These here men don't want none of your..snide outfits, but jest good bronchos and a waggon, and strong harness. 1887Lantern (New Orleans) 9 Apr. 2/3 Who runs dat snide hash house. 1893Advance (Chicago) 5 Oct., When stripped of their gay apparel..the most of them were very snide religions. 1894Maskelyne Sharps & Flats 309 A holdout in the vest is more use than snide jewelry in the pocket. 1899‘J. Flynt’ Tramping with Tramps ii. 277 Utica..is sort of a snide place, this time of the year. 1906E. Dyson Fact'ry 'Ands xiv. 180 'Tain't ther liquor wot's snide, it's ther dead hookity hides what it gets chuted into. 1926[see jungle n. 2 c]. 1973‘J. Patrick’ Glasgow Gang Observed 235 Snide ‘boggin’: used in phrase ‘snide gear’, i.e. clothes that are out of fashion, contemptible, inferior.
2. Of a person: cunning, sharp.
1883E. J. Milliken Childe Chappie's Pilgrimage ii. 15 They self-deemed astute and ‘snide’, Of nous bereft, low chaff the bar-queen golden dyed. 1889Cent. Dict. 5730/3 Snide,..sharp; characterized by low cunning and sharp practice. 1950P. Tempest Lag's Lexicon 193 ‘He's a ‘snide’ so-and-so’ = he's a slippery customer.
3. Insinuating, sneering, slyly derogatory.
1933N. & Q. 14 Oct. 261/2 Our snide way of saying it was cheap, false, and counterfeit. 1939Sun (Baltimore) 15 Apr. 8/1 Snide trick. Any reprehensible bills..enacted in secrecy at a session of the Legislature are bound to come to the surface after the State's lawmakers have left Annapolis. 1943Ibid. 22 Apr. 30/6 It was a horrifying thing..to hear the President..making a snide attack against a group of Americans instead of defending America. 1954M. Davenport My Brother's Keeper 182 She lived in a tenement..and she would fill the whole neighbourhood with snide gossip. 1961J. Heller Catch-22 (1962) x. 103 Ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen was a snide little punk who enjoyed working at cross-purposes. 1978G. Greene Human Factor vi. ii. 318 Next day when Ivan made his snide references to ‘gratitude’ he broke furiously out: ‘You call this gratitude.’ 1981Maledicta V. 123 He..curses a great deal and writes snide letters to careless authors.
B. n.
1. a. Counterfeit jewellery; base coin.
1885Lisbon (Dakota) Star 27 Mar. 5 They pass by the jewels and take ‘the snide’, for that is all they know. 1887Times 22 Dec. 14/2 Witness caught hold of Clark and said ‘Bill, I think you have a little snide (base coin) on you’.
b. A base, contemptible person; a swindler, cheat, liar.
1874Hotten Slang Dict. 299 ‘He's a snide,’ though this seems but a contraction of snide 'un. 1883J. Hay Bread-Winners xix. 297 ‘I am right glad I got here to save you from that—’ he paused, searching for a word which would be descriptive and yet not improper in the presence of a lady,..‘that snide.’ 1919Dialect Notes V. 67 That fellow is a snide, do not trust him. 1935Auden & Isherwood Dog beneath Skin ii. iii. 99 Young Waters is playing too. He's no snyde at the game. 1972L. Henderson Cage until Tame xii. 103 Tolly's not a snide, he's better than most, and he's been bloody unlucky.
c. Hypocrisy, pretence; malicious gossip.
1902G. H. Lorimer Lett. Self-made Merchant vii. 90 Courtesy without condescension,..simplicity without snide. 1966New Statesman 8 Apr. 499/2 She analysed..the nasty state of affairs on the gossip beat. The result was spectacular—some of the popular papers changed the titles of their columns, keyhole snide was banned, [etc.].
2. Comb., as snide-pitcher, snide-pitching; snidesman.
1862Cornh. Mag. Nov. 649 Every professional thief is considered as belonging to the branch of thieving in which he excels the most, and he is named after it:..a snyde pitcher, a magsman,..as the case may be. 1868Temple Bar XXIV. 538 Snyde-pitching is passing bad money. 1896A. Morrison Child Jago 111 An outer fringe of such dippers—such pickpockets—as could dress well, welshers, and snidesmen.
Hence ˈsnidely adv.; ˈsnideness; ˈsnidery = snide n. 1 c; also, an instance of this.
1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang. §317/1 Treachery{ddd}snideness. 1953Britannica Bk. of Year 639/2 Snidery,..hypocrisy, pretence. 1956D. Karp All Honorable Men 39, I drew aside the people from Time and asked them if they were going to treat the Institute snidely or soberly. 1961‘B. Wells’ Day Earth caught Fire viii. 119 ‘If you're right this means no private water at all.’ ‘Correct,’ said Pete snidely. ‘Just turn on the taps and hear the rude noise of progress.’ 1965P. Wylie They both were Naked i. ii. 92, I was ‘in’{ddd}by great good luck and the use of some small snideness. 1967Punch 8 Nov. 697/2 Those sardonic snideries which come too readily to one's lips. 1969Daily Tel. 24 Apr. 21/5 The snidery of the humour may escape those playgoers who cannot look at it with fairly Irish eyes. 1975Country Life 30 Oct. 1160/1, I have often snidely remarked, that the flowers on each spike are not half of them opened before the first are already brown. 1978A. Noakes William Frith iv. 68 Frith's success with Derby Day..sparked off some ill-tempered snideries. |