单词 | snickersnee |
释义 | snickersneen. 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. 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. DerivativesΘΚΠ 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). < n.1727v.1698 |
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