sneeshn.
/sniːʃ/, U.S. /sniʃ/, Scottish English /sniʃ/ Scottish and northern dialect.
1. Snuff.
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1794 Har'st Rig xix. 10 Led on by Malcolm,..Wha takes his snish.
1874 A. Hislop Bk. Sc. Anecd. 6 She did not care one pinch o' snish!
2. A pinch of snuff. The verb sneesh to snuff, and sneesher a snuffer, are also current in modern Scottish dialect (recorded from 1801–9).
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > snuff > [noun] > pinch of
sneeshing1686
snush1703
snuff1724
sneesh1817
1817 Lintoun Green in R. Brown Comic Poems 57 Whan takan' o' a sneesh.
Compounds
General attributive.
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1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Sneeze-horn or Sneesh-horn, a common sort of snuff-box, made of cow's horn.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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