单词 | snicket |
释义 | snicketn. northern dialect. A narrow passage between houses, an alley-way. For further senses of the word see Eng. Dial. Dict. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > lane > [noun] > between buildings twitchenOE chare12.. shut1300 alley1360 entryc1405 wyndc1425 vennel1435 trance1545 row1599 ginnel1669 ruelle1679 gangway1785 pend close1819 ope1825 jitty1836 scutchell1847 gully1849 bolt1855 opeway1881 snicket1898 jigger1902 jowler1961 1898 B. Kirkby Lakeland Words 136 Snicket, a narrow passage between buildings. 1947 I. J. C. Brown Say Word 65 We have vennels, gunnels, and snickets in our northern towns. 1957 R. Hoggart Uses of Literacy i. ii. 52 Street after regular street of shoddily uniform houses intersected by a dark pattern of ginnels and snickets (alley~ways) and courts. 1968 B. Hines Kestrel for Knave 31 He cut down a snicket between two houses, out into the fields. 1981 J. Stubbs Ironmaster xx. 276 We are cramming poor people into ginnels and snickets and foetid courts. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1898 |
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