snafflen.¹

/ˈsnaf(ə)l/

Forms: Also 1500s–1600s snafle, snaffel (1500s snaffell, snafful), 1500s (perhaps transmission error) snuffle.

Etymology: Of doubtful origin: connection with (Middle) Dutch and (Middle) Low German snavel (late Old Frisian snavel, snaul, West Frisian snaffel mouth), Old High German snapal (Middle High German snabel, German schnabel), beak, bill, mouth, is not clear; but compare the use of German schnabel for a forked instrument used in training hunting-dogs to keep the head up.

a. A simple form of bridle-bit, having less restraining power than one provided with a curb.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > bit

kevela1300

barnaclea1382

bitc1385

molanc1400

bridle bit1438

snafflea1533

titup1537

bastonet?1561

cannon?1561

scatch1565

cannon bit1574

snaffle-bit1576

port mouth1589

watering snaffle1593

bell-bit1607

campanel1607

olive1607

pear-bit1607

olive-bit1611

port bit1662

neck-snaffle1686

curb-bit1688

masticador1717

Pelham1742

bridoon1744

slabbering-bit1753

hard and sharp1787

Weymouth1792

bridoon-bit1795

mameluke bit1826

Chiffney-bit1834

training bit1840

ring snaffle1850

gag-snaffle1856

segundo1860

half-moon bit1875

stiff-bit1875

twisted mouth1875

thorn-bit1886

Scamperdale1934

bit-mouth-

a1533 J. Frith Against Rastel (?1535–6) sig. Avi^v I verye well lyken yow to him that hath a wilde horse to tame..when he perceueth that he can not holde him with a scoktyshe snafle.

1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 15^v Geue a Horse the whip, an Asse the snaffell, and a Foole the rodde.

1590 R. Harvey Plaine Percevall sig. C2^v She will prepare a boisterous snuffle, for such boisterous head-strong Jaddes, as will be wincing.

a1630 F. Moryson in Shakespeare's Europe (1903) i. i. 48 Their bridles are like our snafles but commonly sett with Copper studds guilded.

1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. ix. 377 They make also great variety of bridles, both Snaffles and Bitts: such as the wheel and joynted Snaffle, the neck-Snaffle [etc.].

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth II. 362 They are rid generally in a snaffle, without spurs.

1833 Regulations Instr. Cavalry i. ii. 75 Great care must be taken not to press the horse too suddenly up to the snaffle.

1882 B. D. W. Ramsay Recoll. Mil. Serv. I. v. 95 Finding [the horse]..would bear no pressure on his mouth, I at last tried him with a plain light snaffle.

b. figurative or in figurative contexts.

ΚΠ

?1542 H. Brinkelow Complaynt Roderyck Mors xii. sig. C8 This were a good snafful for the tyrannes and oppressers.

1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 842 Rome also not being vsed to be brideled with the snaffle of such insolencie.

1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre iii. xxvii. 158 Being a place of such importance, it would alwayes be a snaffle in the mouth of the Egyptian King.

1678 V. Alsop Melius Inquirendum ii. v. 207 The Ἄνομος, or Lawless person, who has a curbe for every mans Conscience, but will not endure a snaffle upon his own.

1813 T. Moore Intercepted Lett. i. 49 His Lordship proposes ‘The new Veto-snaffle to bind down their noses’.

1833 T. Hook Parson's Daughter II. vii. 135 Give your own passions the curb, and allow mine the snaffle.

c. to ride (one) in, on, or with the snaffle, to rule easily, to guide with a light hand.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > lack of strictness > lessen in strictness or severity [verb (transitive)] > be lenient to

to make it fair witha1425

to ride (one) in, on, or with the snaffle1577

to pull one's punches1931

1577 R. Holinshed Hist. Scotl. 249/1 in Chron. I I perceyue this man will neuer obey my commaundements, till he be rydden with a snaffle.

1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares To Rdr. Ile..ride him with a snaffle vp & down the whole realme.

1670 S. Wilson Lassels's Voy. Italy (new ed.) ii. 281 Such a wanton Courser as Naples, is not to bee ridden with snaffles.

1844 Ld. Ashburton in Croker P. (1884) III. xxiii. 18 As old Hunt said of Manners Sutton as Speaker, he rode them in a snaffle.

1904 E. F. Benson Challoners i The world has begun..to ride life on the snaffle instead of the curb.

Compounds

attributive and in other combinations, as snaffle-bit, snaffle-bridle, snaffle-rein; snaffle-bridled, snaffle-mouthed adjs.; snaffle-mouth n. the mouth of a horse which can be managed with a snaffle alone.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > bit

kevela1300

barnaclea1382

bitc1385

molanc1400

bridle bit1438

snafflea1533

titup1537

bastonet?1561

cannon?1561

scatch1565

cannon bit1574

snaffle-bit1576

port mouth1589

watering snaffle1593

bell-bit1607

campanel1607

olive1607

pear-bit1607

olive-bit1611

port bit1662

neck-snaffle1686

curb-bit1688

masticador1717

Pelham1742

bridoon1744

slabbering-bit1753

hard and sharp1787

Weymouth1792

bridoon-bit1795

mameluke bit1826

Chiffney-bit1834

training bit1840

ring snaffle1850

gag-snaffle1856

segundo1860

half-moon bit1875

stiff-bit1875

twisted mouth1875

thorn-bit1886

Scamperdale1934

bit-mouth-

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > body or parts of horse > [noun] > mouth or type of

snaffle-mouth1910

1576 G. Gascoigne Complaynt of Phylomene in Steele Glas sig. K.iij^v A snaffle Bit or brake, Bebost with gold.

1668 London Gaz. No. 272/4 He took away with her a deep skirted Saddle..and a snaffle Bridle.

1814 Ld. Dudley Let. 7 May (1840) 35 There is no riding the French in a snaffle-bridle.

1856 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports 395/1 I have never yet ridden a snaffle-bridled horse comfortably through a run.

1856 C. J. Lever Martins of Cro' Martin xv. 160 An old worsted bell-rope formed the snaffle-rein of his bridle.

1862 H. H. Dixon Scott & Sebright IV. 308 Early in the ensuing year, Becher was again on the snaffle-mouthed Grimaldi.

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2228/2 Price's bridle-bit..combines the snaffle-bit with a lever-bar.

1910 Chambers's Jrnl. 1 Oct. 703/1 A jungle-fowl which..causes my horse to dance a gavotte.., a feat for which his snaffle mouth and indolent disposition eminently unfit him.

1932 J. E. Hance School for Horse & Rider x. 85 From time to time one hears of such and such a horse possessing a ‘snaffle mouth’. To be entitled to such a designation the animal would have to be capable of flexing and bending to this form of bit at all paces, and such animals are extremely rare.

1977 Horse & Hound 14 Jan. 36/3 (advt.) Chestnut gelding... Snaffle mouth, quiet in every way.

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† snafflen.²

Etymology: perhaps the same word as snaffle n.¹, but compare snaffle v.⁴

Cant. Obsolete.

(See quot. 1699.)

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > robber > [noun] > highwayman > who has booty

snaffle1699

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Snaffle, a Highwayman that has got Booty.

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snafflev.¹

/ˈsnaf(ə)l/

Etymology: < snaffle n.¹

1. transitive. To put a snaffle on (a horse, etc.); to restrain or guide with a snaffle. Frequently figurative.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restrain [verb (transitive)] > hold in check

bridleOE

tempera1050

chastec1230

to hold inc1300

straina1340

stintc1366

attemperc1380

restraina1387

rulea1391

ward1390

coarctc1400

obtemper?a1425

to hold or keep (a person) shortc1425

compesce1430

stent1488

coactc1520

repressa1525

compress1526

control1548

snaffle1555

temperatea1568

brank1574

halter1577

curb1588

shortena1599

to bear (a rein) upon1603

check1629

coerceate1657

bit1825

throttle1862

hold1901

the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [verb (transitive)] > insert or remove bit

snaffle1555

unbit1566

bit1583

gag1591

barnacle1861

1555 J. Heywood Two Hundred Epigrammes with Thyrde sig. B.ii^v If thou wylt brydell me, I wyll snafel the.

1563 W. Baldwin et al. Myrrour for Magistrates (new ed.) Wudvile sig. L.iiii^v For hytherto slye wryters wyly wittes..Have been lyke horses snaffled with the byttes Of fansye, feare, or doubtes.

1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 295 Their arrogaunt insolency, beyng a long tyme reasonably well snafled by the Greeke and Frenche Emperours.

1603 T. Dekker et al. Patient Grissill sig. K^v Asse Ile haue you snaffled.

1679 J. Bunyan Fear of God 180 The guilt and terror that thy sins will snaffle thee with.

a1849 J. C. Mangan Poems (1859) 279 The animal snaffled by Boileau.

1875 Ld. Tennyson Queen Mary v. iii. 264 If you marry Philip, Then I and he will snaffle your ‘God's death,’ And break your paces in.

2. slang. To arrest; to seize.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > arrest > [verb (transitive)]

at-holda1230

attacha1325

resta1325

takec1330

arrest1393

restay?a1400

tachec1400

seisinc1425

to take upa1438

stowc1450

seize1471

to lay (also set, clap, etc.) (a person) by the heels?1515

deprehend1532

apprehend1548

nipa1566

upsnatcha1566

finger1572

to make stay of1572

embarge1585

cap1590

reprehend1598

prehenda1605

embar1647

nap1665

nab1686

bone1699

roast1699

do1784

touch1785

pinch1789

to pull up1799

grab1800

nick1806

pull1811

hobble1819

nail1823

nipper1823

bag1824

lag1847

tap1859

snaffle1860

to put the collar on1865

copper1872

to take in1878

lumber1882

to pick up1887

to pull in1893

lift1923

drag1924

to knock off1926

to put the sleeve on1930

bust1940

pop1960

vamp1970

the mind > possession > taking > seizing > seize [verb (transitive)]

gripea900

afangOE

to lay hands (or hand) on or upon (also in, to)OE

repeOE

atfonga1000

keepc1000

fang1016

kip1297

seize1338

to seize on or upon1399

to grip toc1400

rapc1415

to rap and rendc1415

comprise1423

forsetc1430

grip1488

to put (one's) hand(s) on (also in, to, unto, upon)1495

compass1509

to catch hold1520

hap1528

to lay hold (up)on, of1535

seisin?c1550

cly1567

scratch1582

attach1590

asseizea1593

grasp1642

to grasp at1677

collar1728

smuss1736

get1763

pin1768

grabble1796

bag1818

puckerow1843

nobble1877

jump1882

snaffle1902

snag1962

pull1967

1860 Slang Dict. 220 Snaffled, arrested, ‘pulled up’.

1902 Essex Weekly News 24 Jan. 2/6 On one occasion we snaffled a Cape cart in which were two females dressed in male attire.

Derivatives

ˈsnaffled adj. bridled.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > [adjective] > restrained

bridled1567

retent1568

restrained1578

controlled1581

snubbed1583

retained1592

retentive1599

curbed1600

repressed1606

stifleda1643

suspense1667

light1740

reined-in1740

checked1793

reined-up1835

reticent1877

snaffled1877

directed1891

1877 J. S. Blackie Wise Men Greece 335 Their powers..discharge Their snaffled wrath at Jove's high beck.

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snafflev.²

Etymology: Of obscure origin.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsnaffle.

? Obsolete.

intransitive. To saunter.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > go on foot [verb (intransitive)] > leisurely or idly

raik?c1350

troll1377

spacea1425

jet1530

spacierc1550

snaffle1611

spatiate1626

saunter1671

stroll1680

trollopa1745

dangle1778

doiter1793

stroam1796

browse1803

soodle1821

potter1824

streek1827

streel1839

pasear1840

toddle1848

bummel1900

1611 T. Middleton & T. Dekker Roaring Girle sig. I4 I haue gone snafling vp and downe by your dore this houre to watch for you..I have caught a cold in my head sir.

a1743 J. Relph Misc. of Poems (1747) 5 Mun I still be..shamefully left snafflen by my sell?

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snafflev.³

/ˈsnaf(ə)l/

Etymology: Imitative: compare West Frisian snaffelje and snuffle v.

Now dialect.

1. transitive. To utter through the nose.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > say in a particular manner [verb (transitive)] > nasally

snaffle1616

snuffle1641

nosea1643

twang1748

snifter1880

1616 B. Holyday tr. Persius Sat. i. B 4 If forsooth one clad in purple cloth's Snaffle some mustie stuff through's muffling nose.

2. intransitive. To speak through the nose; to make a snuffling noise.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > speak in a particular manner [verb (intransitive)] > speak nasally

to speak through (also in) the (or one's) nose1598

twang1615

snafflea1635

snuffle1634

snoach1844

nasillate1859

snifter1880

a1635 R. Corbet Poems (1807) 95 To Saint Denis fast we came To see the sights of Nostre Dame, The man that shews them snaffles.

1826 in W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1827) II. 549 A hare-lip..caused him to speak through the nose, or to snaffle, as they term it in Yorkshire.

1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone II. xvii. 229 The horses..snorting, snaffling, whinnying, and neighing.

Derivatives

ˈsnaffling n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > [noun] > speaking through the nose

snoachinga1387

snaffling1670

nasillation1859

whang1875

1670 S. Wilson Lassels's Voy. Italy (new ed.) ii. 422 The snaffling through the nose made all the edification that I sawe in it.

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snafflev.⁴

/ˈsnaf(ə)l/

Etymology: Of obscure origin; compare snaffle n.²

dialect or slang.

1. transitive. To steal, purloin.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > petty theft or pilfering > pilfer [verb (transitive)]

mitcha1393

pelfa1400

purloinc1475

prowl?1529

finger1530

pilfer1532

lurchc1565

filch1567

filch1574

proloyne1581

nim1606

hook1615

truff1718

snaffle1725

crib1735

pettifog1759

magg1762

niffle1785

cabbage1793

weed1811

nibble1819

cab1825

smouch1826

snuga1859

mooch1862

attract1891

souvenir1897

rat1906

snipe1909

promote1918

salvage1918

smooch1941

1725 New Canting Dict. Snaffle, to steal, to rob, to purloin.

c1850 Bagnall Songs 24 (E.D.D.) He cud snaffle the raisins an' currins away.

1897 Longman's Mag. Aug. 372 Archy did not ‘snaffle’ £6000 and invest it in business.

2. To appropriate, seize, catch, snatch. Also with up.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > taking > seizing > seize [verb (transitive)] > quickly or hurriedly

nipa1500

snatch1530

snap1550

snatch1555

snatch1563

snip1577

sneck1608

snapa1639

snap1673

snaffle1895

1895 R. Kipling in Cent. Mag. Dec. 273/2 A year's leave was among the things he had ‘snaffled out of the campaign’, to use his own words.

1915 D. O. Barnett Let. 7 Aug. in In Happy Memory 218 I see they've snaffled Warsaw.

1916 ‘Peter’ Trench Yarns 10 A certain airman had engine trouble up aloft and had to come down behind the German lines. Of course they snaffled him.

1928 Sunday Express 15 Apr. 11/6 I soon snaffled a double role in a big spectacle.

1959 Times 28 May 4/7 Slade threw down Cook's wicket when Meyer tried to snaffle the strike.

1964 M. McLuhan Understanding Media xxxi. 331 Jack discovered how to extend the TV mosaic image..seemingly snaffling up just anybody from anywhere.

a1974 R. Crossman Diaries (1975) I. 149 There was a good deal of bleating, but I got my way and was able to snaffle the Statement for myself in the process.

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n.¹a1533

n.²1699

v.¹1555

v.²1611

v.³1616

v.⁴1725

单词	snaffle
释义	snafflen.¹ /ˈsnaf(ə)l/ Forms: Also 1500s–1600s snafle, snaffel (1500s snaffell, snafful), 1500s (perhaps transmission error) snuffle. Etymology: Of doubtful origin: connection with (Middle) Dutch and (Middle) Low German snavel (late Old Frisian snavel, snaul, West Frisian snaffel mouth), Old High German snapal (Middle High German snabel, German schnabel), beak, bill, mouth, is not clear; but compare the use of German schnabel for a forked instrument used in training hunting-dogs to keep the head up. a. A simple form of bridle-bit, having less restraining power than one provided with a curb. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > bit kevela1300 barnaclea1382 bitc1385 molanc1400 bridle bit1438 snafflea1533 titup1537 bastonet?1561 cannon?1561 scatch1565 cannon bit1574 snaffle-bit1576 port mouth1589 watering snaffle1593 bell-bit1607 campanel1607 olive1607 pear-bit1607 olive-bit1611 port bit1662 neck-snaffle1686 curb-bit1688 masticador1717 Pelham1742 bridoon1744 slabbering-bit1753 hard and sharp1787 Weymouth1792 bridoon-bit1795 mameluke bit1826 Chiffney-bit1834 training bit1840 ring snaffle1850 gag-snaffle1856 segundo1860 half-moon bit1875 stiff-bit1875 twisted mouth1875 thorn-bit1886 Scamperdale1934 bit-mouth- a1533 J. Frith Against Rastel (?1535–6) sig. Avi^v I verye well lyken yow to him that hath a wilde horse to tame..when he perceueth that he can not holde him with a scoktyshe snafle. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 15^v Geue a Horse the whip, an Asse the snaffell, and a Foole the rodde. 1590 R. Harvey Plaine Percevall sig. C2^v She will prepare a boisterous snuffle, for such boisterous head-strong Jaddes, as will be wincing. a1630 F. Moryson in Shakespeare's Europe (1903) i. i. 48 Their bridles are like our snafles but commonly sett with Copper studds guilded. 1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. ix. 377 They make also great variety of bridles, both Snaffles and Bitts: such as the wheel and joynted Snaffle, the neck-Snaffle [etc.]. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth II. 362 They are rid generally in a snaffle, without spurs. 1833 Regulations Instr. Cavalry i. ii. 75 Great care must be taken not to press the horse too suddenly up to the snaffle. 1882 B. D. W. Ramsay Recoll. Mil. Serv. I. v. 95 Finding [the horse]..would bear no pressure on his mouth, I at last tried him with a plain light snaffle. b. figurative or in figurative contexts. ΚΠ ?1542 H. Brinkelow Complaynt Roderyck Mors xii. sig. C8 This were a good snafful for the tyrannes and oppressers. 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 842 Rome also not being vsed to be brideled with the snaffle of such insolencie. 1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre iii. xxvii. 158 Being a place of such importance, it would alwayes be a snaffle in the mouth of the Egyptian King. 1678 V. Alsop Melius Inquirendum ii. v. 207 The Ἄνομος, or Lawless person, who has a curbe for every mans Conscience, but will not endure a snaffle upon his own. 1813 T. Moore Intercepted Lett. i. 49 His Lordship proposes ‘The new Veto-snaffle to bind down their noses’. 1833 T. Hook Parson's Daughter II. vii. 135 Give your own passions the curb, and allow mine the snaffle. c. to ride (one) in, on, or with the snaffle, to rule easily, to guide with a light hand. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of strictness > lessen in strictness or severity [verb (transitive)] > be lenient to to make it fair witha1425 to ride (one) in, on, or with the snaffle1577 to pull one's punches1931 1577 R. Holinshed Hist. Scotl. 249/1 in Chron. I I perceyue this man will neuer obey my commaundements, till he be rydden with a snaffle. 1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares To Rdr. Ile..ride him with a snaffle vp & down the whole realme. 1670 S. Wilson Lassels's Voy. Italy (new ed.) ii. 281 Such a wanton Courser as Naples, is not to bee ridden with snaffles. 1844 Ld. Ashburton in Croker P. (1884) III. xxiii. 18 As old Hunt said of Manners Sutton as Speaker, he rode them in a snaffle. 1904 E. F. Benson Challoners i The world has begun..to ride life on the snaffle instead of the curb. Compounds attributive and in other combinations, as snaffle-bit, snaffle-bridle, snaffle-rein; snaffle-bridled, snaffle-mouthed adjs.; snaffle-mouth n. the mouth of a horse which can be managed with a snaffle alone. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > bit kevela1300 barnaclea1382 bitc1385 molanc1400 bridle bit1438 snafflea1533 titup1537 bastonet?1561 cannon?1561 scatch1565 cannon bit1574 snaffle-bit1576 port mouth1589 watering snaffle1593 bell-bit1607 campanel1607 olive1607 pear-bit1607 olive-bit1611 port bit1662 neck-snaffle1686 curb-bit1688 masticador1717 Pelham1742 bridoon1744 slabbering-bit1753 hard and sharp1787 Weymouth1792 bridoon-bit1795 mameluke bit1826 Chiffney-bit1834 training bit1840 ring snaffle1850 gag-snaffle1856 segundo1860 half-moon bit1875 stiff-bit1875 twisted mouth1875 thorn-bit1886 Scamperdale1934 bit-mouth- the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > body or parts of horse > [noun] > mouth or type of snaffle-mouth1910 1576 G. Gascoigne Complaynt of Phylomene in Steele Glas sig. K.iij^v A snaffle Bit or brake, Bebost with gold. 1668 London Gaz. No. 272/4 He took away with her a deep skirted Saddle..and a snaffle Bridle. 1814 Ld. Dudley Let. 7 May (1840) 35 There is no riding the French in a snaffle-bridle. 1856 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports 395/1 I have never yet ridden a snaffle-bridled horse comfortably through a run. 1856 C. J. Lever Martins of Cro' Martin xv. 160 An old worsted bell-rope formed the snaffle-rein of his bridle. 1862 H. H. Dixon Scott & Sebright IV. 308 Early in the ensuing year, Becher was again on the snaffle-mouthed Grimaldi. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2228/2 Price's bridle-bit..combines the snaffle-bit with a lever-bar. 1910 Chambers's Jrnl. 1 Oct. 703/1 A jungle-fowl which..causes my horse to dance a gavotte.., a feat for which his snaffle mouth and indolent disposition eminently unfit him. 1932 J. E. Hance School for Horse & Rider x. 85 From time to time one hears of such and such a horse possessing a ‘snaffle mouth’. To be entitled to such a designation the animal would have to be capable of flexing and bending to this form of bit at all paces, and such animals are extremely rare. 1977 Horse & Hound 14 Jan. 36/3 (advt.) Chestnut gelding... Snaffle mouth, quiet in every way. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † snafflen.² Etymology: perhaps the same word as snaffle n.¹, but compare snaffle v.⁴ Cant. Obsolete. (See quot. 1699.) ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > robber > [noun] > highwayman > who has booty snaffle1699 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Snaffle, a Highwayman that has got Booty. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2021). snafflev.¹ /ˈsnaf(ə)l/ Etymology: < snaffle n.¹ 1. transitive. To put a snaffle on (a horse, etc.); to restrain or guide with a snaffle. Frequently figurative. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restrain [verb (transitive)] > hold in check bridleOE tempera1050 chastec1230 to hold inc1300 straina1340 stintc1366 attemperc1380 restraina1387 rulea1391 ward1390 coarctc1400 obtemper?a1425 to hold or keep (a person) shortc1425 compesce1430 stent1488 coactc1520 repressa1525 compress1526 control1548 snaffle1555 temperatea1568 brank1574 halter1577 curb1588 shortena1599 to bear (a rein) upon1603 check1629 coerceate1657 bit1825 throttle1862 hold1901 the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [verb (transitive)] > insert or remove bit snaffle1555 unbit1566 bit1583 gag1591 barnacle1861 1555 J. Heywood Two Hundred Epigrammes with Thyrde sig. B.ii^v If thou wylt brydell me, I wyll snafel the. 1563 W. Baldwin et al. Myrrour for Magistrates (new ed.) Wudvile sig. L.iiii^v For hytherto slye wryters wyly wittes..Have been lyke horses snaffled with the byttes Of fansye, feare, or doubtes. 1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 295 Their arrogaunt insolency, beyng a long tyme reasonably well snafled by the Greeke and Frenche Emperours. 1603 T. Dekker et al. Patient Grissill sig. K^v Asse Ile haue you snaffled. 1679 J. Bunyan Fear of God 180 The guilt and terror that thy sins will snaffle thee with. a1849 J. C. Mangan Poems (1859) 279 The animal snaffled by Boileau. 1875 Ld. Tennyson Queen Mary v. iii. 264 If you marry Philip, Then I and he will snaffle your ‘God's death,’ And break your paces in. 2. slang. To arrest; to seize. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > arrest > [verb (transitive)] at-holda1230 attacha1325 resta1325 takec1330 arrest1393 restay?a1400 tachec1400 seisinc1425 to take upa1438 stowc1450 seize1471 to lay (also set, clap, etc.) (a person) by the heels?1515 deprehend1532 apprehend1548 nipa1566 upsnatcha1566 finger1572 to make stay of1572 embarge1585 cap1590 reprehend1598 prehenda1605 embar1647 nap1665 nab1686 bone1699 roast1699 do1784 touch1785 pinch1789 to pull up1799 grab1800 nick1806 pull1811 hobble1819 nail1823 nipper1823 bag1824 lag1847 tap1859 snaffle1860 to put the collar on1865 copper1872 to take in1878 lumber1882 to pick up1887 to pull in1893 lift1923 drag1924 to knock off1926 to put the sleeve on1930 bust1940 pop1960 vamp1970 the mind > possession > taking > seizing > seize [verb (transitive)] gripea900 afangOE to lay hands (or hand) on or upon (also in, to)OE repeOE atfonga1000 keepc1000 fang1016 kip1297 seize1338 to seize on or upon1399 to grip toc1400 rapc1415 to rap and rendc1415 comprise1423 forsetc1430 grip1488 to put (one's) hand(s) on (also in, to, unto, upon)1495 compass1509 to catch hold1520 hap1528 to lay hold (up)on, of1535 seisin?c1550 cly1567 scratch1582 attach1590 asseizea1593 grasp1642 to grasp at1677 collar1728 smuss1736 get1763 pin1768 grabble1796 bag1818 puckerow1843 nobble1877 jump1882 snaffle1902 snag1962 pull1967 1860 Slang Dict. 220 Snaffled, arrested, ‘pulled up’. 1902 Essex Weekly News 24 Jan. 2/6 On one occasion we snaffled a Cape cart in which were two females dressed in male attire. Derivatives ˈsnaffled adj. bridled. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > [adjective] > restrained bridled1567 retent1568 restrained1578 controlled1581 snubbed1583 retained1592 retentive1599 curbed1600 repressed1606 stifleda1643 suspense1667 light1740 reined-in1740 checked1793 reined-up1835 reticent1877 snaffled1877 directed1891 1877 J. S. Blackie Wise Men Greece 335 Their powers..discharge Their snaffled wrath at Jove's high beck. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2020). snafflev.² Etymology: Of obscure origin.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsnaffle. ? Obsolete. intransitive. To saunter. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > go on foot [verb (intransitive)] > leisurely or idly raik?c1350 troll1377 spacea1425 jet1530 spacierc1550 snaffle1611 spatiate1626 saunter1671 stroll1680 trollopa1745 dangle1778 doiter1793 stroam1796 browse1803 soodle1821 potter1824 streek1827 streel1839 pasear1840 toddle1848 bummel1900 1611 T. Middleton & T. Dekker Roaring Girle sig. I4 I haue gone snafling vp and downe by your dore this houre to watch for you..I have caught a cold in my head sir. a1743 J. Relph Misc. of Poems (1747) 5 Mun I still be..shamefully left snafflen by my sell? This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2019). snafflev.³ /ˈsnaf(ə)l/ Etymology: Imitative: compare West Frisian snaffelje and snuffle v. Now dialect. 1. transitive. To utter through the nose. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > say in a particular manner [verb (transitive)] > nasally snaffle1616 snuffle1641 nosea1643 twang1748 snifter1880 1616 B. Holyday tr. Persius Sat. i. B 4 If forsooth one clad in purple cloth's Snaffle some mustie stuff through's muffling nose. 2. intransitive. To speak through the nose; to make a snuffling noise. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > speak in a particular manner [verb (intransitive)] > speak nasally to speak through (also in) the (or one's) nose1598 twang1615 snafflea1635 snuffle1634 snoach1844 nasillate1859 snifter1880 a1635 R. Corbet Poems (1807) 95 To Saint Denis fast we came To see the sights of Nostre Dame, The man that shews them snaffles. 1826 in W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1827) II. 549 A hare-lip..caused him to speak through the nose, or to snaffle, as they term it in Yorkshire. 1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone II. xvii. 229 The horses..snorting, snaffling, whinnying, and neighing. Derivatives ˈsnaffling n. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > [noun] > speaking through the nose snoachinga1387 snaffling1670 nasillation1859 whang1875 1670 S. Wilson Lassels's Voy. Italy (new ed.) ii. 422 The snaffling through the nose made all the edification that I sawe in it. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online September 2018). snafflev.⁴ /ˈsnaf(ə)l/ Etymology: Of obscure origin; compare snaffle n.² dialect or slang. 1. transitive. To steal, purloin. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > petty theft or pilfering > pilfer [verb (transitive)] mitcha1393 pelfa1400 purloinc1475 prowl?1529 finger1530 pilfer1532 lurchc1565 filch1567 filch1574 proloyne1581 nim1606 hook1615 truff1718 snaffle1725 crib1735 pettifog1759 magg1762 niffle1785 cabbage1793 weed1811 nibble1819 cab1825 smouch1826 snuga1859 mooch1862 attract1891 souvenir1897 rat1906 snipe1909 promote1918 salvage1918 smooch1941 1725 New Canting Dict. Snaffle, to steal, to rob, to purloin. c1850 Bagnall Songs 24 (E.D.D.) He cud snaffle the raisins an' currins away. 1897 Longman's Mag. Aug. 372 Archy did not ‘snaffle’ £6000 and invest it in business. 2. To appropriate, seize, catch, snatch. Also with up. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > seizing > seize [verb (transitive)] > quickly or hurriedly nipa1500 snatch1530 snap1550 snatch1555 snatch1563 snip1577 sneck1608 snapa1639 snap1673 snaffle1895 1895 R. Kipling in Cent. Mag. Dec. 273/2 A year's leave was among the things he had ‘snaffled out of the campaign’, to use his own words. 1915 D. O. Barnett Let. 7 Aug. in In Happy Memory 218 I see they've snaffled Warsaw. 1916 ‘Peter’ Trench Yarns 10 A certain airman had engine trouble up aloft and had to come down behind the German lines. Of course they snaffled him. 1928 Sunday Express 15 Apr. 11/6 I soon snaffled a double role in a big spectacle. 1959 Times 28 May 4/7 Slade threw down Cook's wicket when Meyer tried to snaffle the strike. 1964 M. McLuhan Understanding Media xxxi. 331 Jack discovered how to extend the TV mosaic image..seemingly snaffling up just anybody from anywhere. a1974 R. Crossman Diaries (1975) I. 149 There was a good deal of bleating, but I got my way and was able to snaffle the Statement for myself in the process. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.¹a1533n.²1699v.¹1555v.²1611v.³1616v.⁴1725
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