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单词 snickersnee
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snickersneen.

/ˈsnɪkəsniː/
Forms: Also snicker-, snikker-snee.
Etymology: Alteration of snick or snee v. and n.
1. = snick-a-snee n. 1.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > armed encounter > [noun] > a fight with knives
snick-a-snee1673
snickersnee1727
snick and snee1802
1727 A. Boyer Dictionaire Royal (rev. ed.) Snicker-snee (the Dutch way of fighting with pointed Knives).
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Snikker-Snee, a combat with knives.
2. A large knife.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > side arms > knife or dagger > [noun] > types of
anlacec1300
misericord1324
bodkin1386
baselardc1390
popperc1390
wood-knife1426
spudc1440
pavade1477
bistoury1490
skene1527
dudgeon1548
sword dagger1567
machete1575
kris1589
bum dagger1596
stillado1607
stiletto1611
steelet1616
hanjar1621
pisaa1640
jockteleg1642
khanjar1684
bayonet1692
kuttar1696
parazonium1751
skene-ochles1754
scalping-knife1759
snick-a-snee1760
manchette1762
snickersnee1775
guard-dagger1786
boarding knife1807
scalp-knife1807
kukri1811
skene-dhu1811
parang1820
stylet1820
belt knife1831
bowie-knife1836
scalper1837
sheath-knife1837
toothpick1837
tumbok lada1839
snick-and-snee knife1843
tickler1844
bowie1846
toad-sticker1858
simi1860
scramasax1862
kinjal1863
left-hander1869
main gauche1869
aikuchi1875
tanto1885
toad-stabber1885
cinquedea1897
trench knife1898
puukko1925
panga1929
quillon dagger1950
flick-knife1957
ratchet knife1966
sai1973
ratchet1975
1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Snickersnee,..a long kind of knife.
1791 G. Huddesford Salmagundi 86 He pulled out his Snicker-snee With imprecations horrid.
1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. II. v. v. 41 Here came men..without lock, stock, or barrel.—Cartridge boxes, shot belts, powder-horns, hatchets, snicker-snees,..all mingled together.
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Snicker-snee, a large clasp knife.
1840 W. M. Thackeray Catherine xiv Drawing his snickersnee, he plunged it in the bailiff's chest.
1885 W. S. Gilbert Mikado ii. 37 As I gnashed my teeth, When from its sheath I drew my snicker-snee.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

snickersneev.

Forms: Also 1700s snigger-, sneaker-, sneeker-.
Etymology: formed as snickersnee n.
Obsolete.
intransitive. To fight with knives; to use a knife as a weapon.Cf. the Lincolnshire dialect snickersneeze, used in threatening children (‘If you do that, I'll snickersneeze you’).
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > cut of sharp weapon > use of knives > use knife [verb (intransitive)]
snick or sneea1613
snick and snee1645
snickersnee1704
1704 N. N. tr. T. Boccalini Advts. from Parnassus III. 16 But when the Officers came to inforce the Execution of this Decree upon the Dutch, they were ready to fall to Snigger Snee with 'em about it.
1712 J. Arbuthnot Lewis Baboon iv. vii. 31 He pull'd out a Case-Knife, with which he used to Sneaker-snee, and threaten'd to cut his own Throat.
1738 G. Smith Curious Relations i. iii. 443 He that acted the Character of the Insolent Sailor, humour'd it to the Life..: He wanted to fight, or Sneeker-snee.

Derivatives

snickersneeing n. and adj. Obsolete
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > cut of sharp weapon > use of knives > [noun]
snick or snee1670
snicking and sneeing1674
snickersneeing1698
daggering1830
bowieism1844
knife-work1845
knife-playing1855
bowie-kniving1861
society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > cut of sharp weapon > use of knives > [adjective]
snickersneeing1698
1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 119 Boxing among the English; Snicker-Sneeing among the Dutch.
1764 T. Bridges Homer Travestie II. 230 An ugly dream, Wherein a Dutch-built thief did seem To shake a snickersneeing knife.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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