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单词 snoke
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snokev.

Brit. /snəʊk/, U.S. /snoʊk/, Scottish English /snok/
Forms: α. Middle English, 1800s snoke (Middle English snokyn), 1500s Scottish snokk-, 1800s snoak. β. 1500s snooke, 1600s– snook (1700s dialect snooac). γ. 1600s– snouk, 1700s– snowk.
Origin: Probably a borrowing from early Scandinavian.
Etymology: probably of Scandinavian origin: compare Norwegian dialect snōka to snuff, smell.
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.
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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.
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.
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.

Derivatives

ˈsnoking n.
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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.
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