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snoke, v. Chiefly north. and Sc.|snəʊk|
Forms: α. 4–5, 9 snoke (5 snokyn), 6 Sc. snokk-, 9 snoak. β. 6 snooke, 7– snook (8 dial. snooac). γ. 7– snouk, 8– snowk.
[prob. of Scand. origin: cf. Norw. dial. snōka to snuff, smell.]
intr. and trans. To snuff or smell; to go snuffing or smelling (at); to poke about with the nose. Also fig., to sneak about, to keep watch over, etc.
αc1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. II. 83 Disciplis of Crist wenten into þe citee to bie hem mete; for þei snokiden not fro hous to hous and beggiden mete, as freris doon. c1475Promp. Parv. 462/1 (MS. K.), Snokyn, or smellyn, nicto. 1500Ortus Vocab. BB vij, Nicto,..to snoke as a honde dos. 1513Douglas æneid v. ii. 99 The drink, and eik the offerandis gret and small, [the snake] Snokkis [v.r. snokis] and likkit. 1831J. Wilson Noct. Ambr. Wks. 1855 III. 98 After smellin an' snokin an' snortin at it for a while. 1834M. Scott Cruise Midge xxi, He lay still, with the beast..poking down its head, and snorting and snoking at him.
β1570Levins Manip. 159/35 To Snooke, olfacere. 1608Hieron Defence ii. 8 Whether he snooketh not as right into Rheames and Rome as maie be [etc.]. 1641Best Farm. Bks. (Surtees) 74 The hogges went snuffinge and snookinge from heape to heape. a1652Brome New Acad. ii. i, I must not lose my harmlesse recreations Abroad, to snook over my wife at home. 1687Miége Gt. Fr. Dict. ii, To Snook, or ly lurking for a thing. 1722Wodrow Hist. Suff. Ch. Scot. iii. viii. II. 449 The Dogs would snook and smell about the Stones under which they were hid, and yet they remained undiscovered. 1788W. H. Marshall Yorksh. II. 354 To Snooac, to smell in a snuffing manner. 1834[Seba Smith] Lett. J. Downing (1835) 106 All we've got to do is to open that, and snook among old papers. 1891R. Ford Thistledown ix. 163 That we do not gang..snookin' amang the snaw like mowdiewarts.
γ1624Sanderson Serm. I. 241 Like swine under the oaks, we grouze up the acorns, and snouk about for more. 1786Burns Twa Dogs 39 Wi' social nose [the dogs] whyles snuff'd an' snowket. 1861Quin Heather Lintie (1863) 76, I snouk aboot For 'tatty peels and banes o' herrin'. 1894Crockett Raiders xlv. 384 Gin ony o' Agnew's men were gaun snowkin' roond, it micht cause misunderstandings.
Hence ˈsnoking vbl. n.
c1440Promp. Parv. 462/1 Snokynge, olfactus. |