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▪ I. snool, n. Sc. and north. dial.|snul|
Also 8– Sc. snule, snuil, 9 north. snuol.
[Of obscure origin.]
A tame, abject, or mean-spirited person.
1718Ramsay Christ's Kirk Gr. iii. xvi, Ye silly snool, Wae worth ye'r drunken saul. 1791J. Learmont Poems 4 [They] lead ye on like arrant snools, 'Lang error's road. 1815G. Beattie John o' Arnha' (1826) 13 Your snools in love, and cowards in war, Frae maiden grace are banish'd far. 1822Carlyle Early Lett. II. 51 You or any one of us will never be a snool; we have not the blood of snools in our bodies. 1882J. Walker Jaunt to Auld Reekie 87 Crouching snools are kin to gangrel bodies.
▪ II. snool, v.|snul|
[f. prec.]
1. trans. To keep in subjection; to snub.
17..Ramsay Address of Thanks iv. Wks. 1877 I. 258 Our dotard dads, snool'd wi' their wives. a1796Burns ‘An' O for ane-and-twenty, Tam!’ ii, They snool me sair, and haud me down. 1830Galt Lawrie T. ix. i. (1849) 406 The arrogance and high hand with which Mr. Bell was attempting to snool us all.
2. intr. To submit tamely; to cringe; to crawl meekly or humbly.
1786Burns Bard's Epitaph i, Owre blate to seek, owre proud to snool. 1810Tannahill Poems (1846) 141 Never snool beneath the frown Of any selfish roggie. 1833Chalmers in Hanna Mem. (1851) III. 391 We had to snool back to London the way we came. 1895‘G. Setoun’ Sunshine ix. 198 Sandy ‘snooled’ through life with bovine equanimity. |