单词 | snoke |
释义 | snokev. Chiefly northern and Scottish. intransitive and transitive. To snuff or smell; to go snuffing or smelling (at); to poke about with the nose. Also figurative, to sneak about, to keep watch over, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > [verb (intransitive)] > exercise sense of smell smellc1200 smella1300 snokec1380 smell1526 snuff1530 snuffle1601 whiff1635 sniff1788 nose1794 nuzzle1806 snuft1820 snuzzle1861 the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > [verb (transitive)] > exercise the sense of smell snevec1200 snokec1380 savoura1382 thevea1400 whiff1635 nesea1637 scent1638 venta1640 taste1656 snift1736 sniff1792 olfact1805 to run up1815 smell1831 sniffa1845 snuff1858 smellsip1922 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > stealthy action, stealth > stealthy movement > move stealthily [verb (intransitive)] besteala725 snikec897 steal1154 creepc1175 skulk?c1225 snaker?c1225 stalkc1300 slenchc1330 lurka1375 slinkc1374 snokec1380 slide1382 slipc1400 mitchera1575 sneak1598 snake1818 sly1825 snoop1832 to steal one's way1847 sniggle1881 gumshoe1897 slime1898 pussyfoot1902 soft-foot1913 cat-foot1916 pussy1919 pussa1953 the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > vigilance > keeping watch > keep watch on [verb (transitive)] biwitieOE to look to ——c1330 watchc1330 to make or lay await onc1386 markc1400 to wait to ——c1440 to keep (also have) an (or one's) eye on (also upon)a1450 waken1535 to look unto ——1594 to carry a wary (also watchful, etc.) eye on (also upon)1596 to look after ——a1616 overwatch1618 snokea1652 to look up1855 surveil1960 α. β. 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Niii/1 To Snooke, olfacere.1608 S. Hieron 2nd Pt. Def. Ministers Reasons 8 Whether he snooketh not as right into Rheames and Rome as maie be [etc.].a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 78 The hogges went snuffinge and snookinge from heape to heape.a1652 R. Brome New Acad. ii. i. 23 in Five New Playes (1659) I must not lose my harmlesse recreations Abroad to snook over my wife at home.1688 G. Miege Great French Dict. ii. sig. Qqq3/3 To Snook, or ly lurking for a Thing.1722 R. Wodrow Hist. Sufferings Church of Scotl. II. iii. viii. 449 The Dogs would snook and smell about the Stones under which they were hid, and yet they remained undiscovered.1788 W. Marshall Provincialisms E. Yorks. in Rural Econ. Yorks. II. 354 To Snooac, to smell in a snuffing manner.1834 S. Smith Sel. Lett. Major Jack Downing 119 All we've got to do is to open that, and snook among old papers.1891 R. Ford Thistledown ix. 163 That we do not gang..snookin' amang the snaw like mowdiewarts.γ. 1632 R. Sanderson 12 Serm. 471 Like Swine vnder the Oakes, we grouze vp the akecornes, and snouke about for more.1786 R. Burns Twa Dogs vi, in Poems 11 Wi' social nose [the dogs] whyles snuff'd an' snowket.1861 R. Quinn Heather Lintie (1863) 76 I snouk aboot For 'tatty peels and banes o' herrin'.1894 S. R. Crockett Raiders xlv. 384 Gin ony o' Agnew's men were gaun snowkin' roond, it micht cause misunderstandings.c1380 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. II. 83 Disciplis of Crist wenten into þe citee to bie hem mete; for þei snokiden not fro hous to hous and beggiden mete, as freris doon. c1475 Promptorium Parvulorum 462/1 (MS. K.) Snokyn, or smellyn, nicto. 1500 Ortus Vocabulaorum BB vij Nicto,..to snoke as a honde dos. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid v. ii. 99 The drink, and eik the offerandis gret and small, [the snake] Snokkis [v.r. snokis] and likkit. 1831 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae liii, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 5 After smellin' an' snokin an' snortin' at it for a while. 1836 M. Scott Cruise of Midge xxi. 388 He lay still, with the beast..poking down its head, and snorting and snoking at him. Derivatives ˈsnoking n. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > [noun] > exercising sense of smell snevingc1200 odoration?a1425 snokingc1440 smelling1509 smellc1560 vent1575 venting1611 sniff1767 snuff1822 olfaction1833 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 462/1 Snokynge, olfactus. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < v.c1380 |
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