单词 | sneaking |
释义 | sneakingn. The action of the verb in various senses. Also with prepositions and adverbs. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > humility > servility > [noun] fawninga1350 submission?a1439 overlowness1496 servility1573 servilenessa1594 obsequency1595 obsequiousness1613 cringing1617 slavishnessa1620 vernility1623 servulating1637 suppleness1638 sneakinga1657 subserviency1669 fawningness1672 subservience1680 cringingness1695 truckling1820 obsequience1830 flunkeyism1831 servilism1831 spanielship1832 toadyism1840 flunkeydom1850 oleaginousness1853 vassalism1854 toadying1863 grovel1892 obsequity1892 crawlsomeness1900 serfishness1906 oleosity?1920 ass-kissing1936 the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > [noun] > moving softly or stealthily skulking1297 stealing1581 sneakinga1657 stealthing1955 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > stealthy action, stealth > stealthy movement > [noun] stalkingc1000 creeping1565 hedge-creeping1579 stealing1581 steal1590 stealth1600 insinuation1608 slinking1611 sneakinga1657 prowl1803 creep1818 sneak1819 lurk1829 slink1853 pussyfooting1956 a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Richard II cxliv, in Poems (1878) III. 173 But sneaking smells of Peasant, though they weare Blue Ribbands. 1657 tr. A. Thevet Prosopographia 45, in T. North tr. Plutarch Lives (new ed.) He built a house without his Camp for all strangerthat arrived,..whereby he prevented their sneaking into his Camp. 1706 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1885) I. 217 By his Sneaking and Cringing. 1772 T. Simpson Compl. Vermin-killer 20 They appear shy, but that is from your sneaking after them. 1829 T. Carlyle in Foreign Rev. Jan. 441 An assiduity..which sometimes almost verges towards sneaking. 1895 Outing 26 403/2 By hard sneaking it was possible to get within about two hundred and fifty yards. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2018). sneakingadj. 1. a. That sneaks; moving, walking, acting, etc., in a furtive or slinking manner. Also transferred. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > stealthy action, stealth > [adjective] privyc1230 thiefly1395 stalkinga1400 slyc1440 insidious1545 clanculary1563 hedge-creeping1579 thievish1587 sneaking1590 tiptoe1593 peaking1595 underworking1605 stealthya1616 subtlea1616 surreptitious?1615 clancular1621 stealthful?1624 insidiary1625 worming1631 subterranean1643 clancularious1656 hugger-mugger1692 slink1792 slinking1841 instealing1844 thief-like1847 furtive1859 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > stealthy action, stealth > stealthy movement > [adjective] creepinga1400 slyc1440 prowling1546 stealing1574 sneaking1590 cat-footed1598 soft-footed1603 surrepent1608 cat-likea1616 stealthya1616 grassant1659 sliving1661 creep-mouse1766 secret1768 slinking1841 pussy-footed1893 undercreeping1893 pussyfooting1926 slinky1951 1590 R. Greene Neuer too Late ii. sig. G4 He is such a sneaking fellowe, that..touch him and he will scrike. 1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller (new ed.) sig. B3 They will..call him a sneaking [(ed. 1) sweating] Eauesdropper. 1659 T. Burton Diary (1828) IV. 71 Where is then the anarchy, the sneaking oligarchy? 1673 A. Walker Leez Lachrymans 26 He had a great mans mind, not a little sneeking, servile, narrow, soul. 1710 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1889) III. 34 Authoriz'd to be printed by our sneaking Vicechanc[ellor]. 1726 J. Dyer Misc. Poems 52 The sneaking tribe of Flattery. 1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. 227 Lurking footpads and sneaking pickpockets. 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xiii. 115 A nasty, ungrateful, pig-headed, brutish, obstinate, sneaking dog. 1891 C. Roberts Adrift in Amer. 99 Several of these sneaking beasts [coyotes] were prowling round. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > petty theft or pilfering > [noun] micherya1393 mitchinga1393 picking1402 purloining1417 pilferc1425 pickery1460 pilfering1548 filching1567 lurching1570 pilfery1573 petty larceny1578 filching-tradea1592 prigging1591 filchery1607 nimming1607 sneaking-budge1699 pilferage1732 cabbaging1774 weeding1819 pilferment1823 crib1855 filch1877 souveniring1919 the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > [noun] > who works alone sneaking-budge1699 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew 1743 H. Fielding Jonathan Wild i. viii, in Misc. III. 53 Wild..looked upon borrowing to be as good a Way of taking as any, and as he called it, the genteelest Kind of Sneaking-Budge. 1752 H. Fielding Amelia I. i. iii. 19 I find you are some sneaking Budge Rascal. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > [adjective] gnedec900 gripplea1000 fastOE narrow-hearteda1200 narrow?c1225 straitc1290 chinchc1300 nithinga1325 scarcec1330 clama1340 hard1340 scantc1366 sparingc1386 niggardc1400 chinchy?1406 retentivea1450 niggardousa1492 niggish1519 unliberal1533 pinching1548 dry1552 nigh1555 niggardly1560 churlish1566 squeamish1566 niggardish1567 niggard-like1567 holding1569 spare1577 handfast1578 envious1580 close-handed1585 hard-handed1587 curmudgeonly1590 parsimonious?1591 costive1594 hidebound1598 penny-pinching1600 penurious1600 strait-handed1600 club-fisted1601 dry-fisted1604 fast-handed1605 fast-fingered1607 close-fisted1608 near1611 scanting1613 carkingc1620 illiberal1623 clutch-fisteda1634 hideboundeda1640 clutch-fista1643 clunch-fisted1644 unbounteous1645 hard-fisted1646 purse-bound1652 close1654 stingy1659 tenacious1676 scanty1692 sneaking1696 gripe-handed1698 narrow-souled1699 niggardling1704 snippy1727 unindulgent1742 shabby1766 neargoinga1774 cheesemongering1781 split-farthing1787 save-all1788 picked1790 iron-fisted1794 unhandsome1800 scaly1803 nearbegoing1805 tight1805 nippit1808 nipcheese1819 cumin-splitting1822 partan-handed1823 scrimping1823 scrumptious1823 scrimpy1825 meanly1827 skinny1833 pinchfisted1837 mean1840 tight-fisted1843 screwy1844 stinty1849 cheeseparing1857 skinflinty1886 mouly1904 mingy1911 cheapskate1912 picey1937 tight-assed1961 chintzy1964 tightwad1976 1696 W. Mountague Delights Holland Pref. 2 We were not Sneaking..but thriftily Liberal. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones IV. x. iii. 21 He had some few Blemishes.., yet being a sneaking or a niggardly Fellow, was not one of them. View more context for this quotation 1776 S. Foote Bankrupt iii. 68 No gentleman can accuse me of being sneaking. Dingey, give him six pence. 2. Marked or characterized by, partaking or suggestive of, sneaking; hence, mean, contemptible. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > condition of being held in contempt > [adjective] > contemptible unworthc893 unwrastc893 littleOE narrow-hearteda1200 wretcha1200 unworthya1240 wretchedc1250 un-i-wrastc1275 bad1276 lechera1300 feeblea1325 despisablea1340 villain1340 contemptiblec1384 lousyc1386 caitiff1393 brothelyc1400 roinousa1425 poor1425 sevenpennyc1475 nasty1477 peakish1519 filthy1533 despectuous1541 beggary1542 scald1542 shitten?1545 disdainfula1547 contemptuous1549 despicable1553 skit-brained?1553 contemniblea1555 vile1560 sluttish1561 queer1567 scornful1570 scallardc1575 tinkerly?1576 worthless1576 beggarly?1577 paltry1578 halfpenny1579 dog bolt1580 pitiful1582 sneaking1582 triobolar1585 wormisha1586 baddy1586 dudgeon1592 measled1596 packstaff1598 roguey1598 roguish1601 contemptful1608 grovelling1608 lightly1608 disdainable1611 purulent1611 snotty-nose1622 vilipendious1630 cittern-headed1638 wormy1640 pissabed1643 triobolary1644 disparageable1648 blue-bellied1652 unestimable1656 scullion1658 piteous1667 dirty1670 shabbed1674 shabby1679 snotty1681 snotty-nosed1682 mucky1683 bollocky1694 scoundrel1700 scaldeda1704 sneaking1703 ficulnean1716 unsolid1731 pitiable1753 scrubby1754 inimitable1798 scrubbish1798 worm-likea1807 small1824 lowlife1827 ketty1828 skunkish1831 yellow-bellied1833 scaly1843 cockroachya1845 wutless1853 nigger1859 trashy1862 low-down1872 cruddy1877 shitty1879 tinhorn1886 blithering1889 motherfucking1890 snidey1890 pilgarlicky1894 shitass1895 shoddy1918 yah boo1921 bitching1929 shit-faced1932 turdish1936 fricking1937 jerk-off1937 chickenshit1940 sheg-up1941 snot-nosed1941 jerky1944 mother-loving1948 scroungy1948 fecking1952 pissant1952 shit-kicking1953 shit-eating1956 bumboclaat1957 rassclaat1957 shit-headed1959 farkakte1960 shithouse1966 daggy1967 dipshit1968 scuzzy1969 bloodclaat1971 bitch ass1972 wanky1972 streelish1974 twatty1975 twattish1976 dweeby1988 douchey1991 wank1991 cockish1996 the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > sneakiness > sneaky person > [adjective] sneaking1582 makeshift1592 glibbery1601 meeching1616 sneaky1834 society > morality > moral evil > lack of principle or integrity > [adjective] > underhand or sneaky subornate1548 sneaking1582 sinistral1598 sinistruous1601 left-sided1607 left-handed1615 meeching1616 leer1631 backstabbing1803 sneaky1834 underhand1842 sneakish1864 underhanded1864 low-down1905 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iii. 57 But Scylla in cabbans with sneaking treacherye lurcketh. 1658 F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1907) II. 73 He has an extraordinary sneaking countenance and way with him. 1702 C. Beaumont J. Beaumont's Psyche (new ed.) xiii. xxiii. 195 No Conventicles sneaking Cloisters hid Those Doctrines. 1724 R. Welton Substance Christian Faith 223 It was, methinks, as sneaking a submission..as it was a false assertion. 1770 S. Foote Lame Lover i. 10 An absolute monarch to sink into the sneaking state of being a slave to one of his subjects. 1845 Ld. Campbell Lives Chancellors III. lxxiii. 102 They..in a sneaking and paltry manner pretended that they were not prepared. 1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. i. 4 It's worthy of the sneaking spirit that robs a live man. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > small or trifling in amount or degree eathlyc890 littleOE slender1530 foolish1533 triflinga1538 paltry1565 puny?1594 mean1599 minikin1617 unconsiderable1643 inconsiderable1648 punctilio1660 sneaking1703 insignificant1748 flimsy1756 peppercornish1762 peppercorn1791 microscopic1798 pindling1861 midget1879 diddly1893 scroddyc1909 chickenshit1934 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > condition of being held in contempt > [adjective] > contemptible unworthc893 unwrastc893 littleOE narrow-hearteda1200 wretcha1200 unworthya1240 wretchedc1250 un-i-wrastc1275 bad1276 lechera1300 feeblea1325 despisablea1340 villain1340 contemptiblec1384 lousyc1386 caitiff1393 brothelyc1400 roinousa1425 poor1425 sevenpennyc1475 nasty1477 peakish1519 filthy1533 despectuous1541 beggary1542 scald1542 shitten?1545 disdainfula1547 contemptuous1549 despicable1553 skit-brained?1553 contemniblea1555 vile1560 sluttish1561 queer1567 scornful1570 scallardc1575 tinkerly?1576 worthless1576 beggarly?1577 paltry1578 halfpenny1579 dog bolt1580 pitiful1582 sneaking1582 triobolar1585 wormisha1586 baddy1586 dudgeon1592 measled1596 packstaff1598 roguey1598 roguish1601 contemptful1608 grovelling1608 lightly1608 disdainable1611 purulent1611 snotty-nose1622 vilipendious1630 cittern-headed1638 wormy1640 pissabed1643 triobolary1644 disparageable1648 blue-bellied1652 unestimable1656 scullion1658 piteous1667 dirty1670 shabbed1674 shabby1679 snotty1681 snotty-nosed1682 mucky1683 bollocky1694 scoundrel1700 scaldeda1704 sneaking1703 ficulnean1716 unsolid1731 pitiable1753 scrubby1754 inimitable1798 scrubbish1798 worm-likea1807 small1824 lowlife1827 ketty1828 skunkish1831 yellow-bellied1833 scaly1843 cockroachya1845 wutless1853 nigger1859 trashy1862 low-down1872 cruddy1877 shitty1879 tinhorn1886 blithering1889 motherfucking1890 snidey1890 pilgarlicky1894 shitass1895 shoddy1918 yah boo1921 bitching1929 shit-faced1932 turdish1936 fricking1937 jerk-off1937 chickenshit1940 sheg-up1941 snot-nosed1941 jerky1944 mother-loving1948 scroungy1948 fecking1952 pissant1952 shit-kicking1953 shit-eating1956 bumboclaat1957 rassclaat1957 shit-headed1959 farkakte1960 shithouse1966 daggy1967 dipshit1968 scuzzy1969 bloodclaat1971 bitch ass1972 wanky1972 streelish1974 twatty1975 twattish1976 dweeby1988 douchey1991 wank1991 cockish1996 1703 R. Neve City & Countrey Purchaser 87 Sometimes little sneaking ill-contrived Stair-cases are built in a good comely large Structure. 1734 H. Fielding Don Quixote in Eng. ii. i. 21 For a sneaking Fee he pleads the Villain's Cause. 1779 F. Burney Let. 29 Oct. in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1994) III. 410 A meaner, more sneaking & pitiful Wig..did I never see. 4. Of feelings, affection, etc.: Unavowedly cherished or entertained; not openly declared or shown; undemonstrative. Frequently in a sneaking kindness. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > privacy > [adjective] > innermost inmostc897 innerc900 privyc1300 intrinsic1490 interior1548 intrinsical1548 inward1548 secret1548 retired1596 in-pent1613 bosom1640 sneaking1748 interior1775 inside1888 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa III. lvi. 270 I believe I have a sneaking kindness for the sneaking fellow. 1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison I. xxxvii. 265 You..shall reveal to me your sneaking passion, if you have one. 1785 W. Cowper Tirocinium in Task 244 Some sneaking virtue lurks in him, no doubt. View more context for this quotation 1842 W. M. Thackeray Miss Tickletoby's Lect. vii I can't help having a sneaking regard for him. 1871 L. Stephen Playground of Europe (1894) ix. 204 I have a sneaking..belief in the virtues of the scrambling Briton. 1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 676 I have a sneaking sympathy with these good people. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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