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snooter, v.|ˈsnuːtə(r)| [f. as prec. + -er5.] trans. To harass, to bedevil; to snub. (Only in P. G. Wodehouse.)
1923Wodehouse Inimit. Jeeves iii. 30 My Aunt Agatha..wouldn't be on hand to snooter me for at least another six weeks. 1929― Mr. Mulliner Speaking viii. 286 ‘As far’, replied Mr. Finch, frigidly, ‘as a bloke can be said to be all right..who has been..chivvied and snootered and shot in the fleshy part of the leg—.’ 1932― Let. 13 Aug. in Performing Flea (1953) 66 Downtrodden young peer, much snootered by aunts, etc., has become engaged to two girls at once. |