单词 | to go snips |
释义 | > as lemmasto go snips (†or snip) b. to go snips (†or snip), to go shares (with some one, or in something), to share or participate in the profits. Now dialect.In very common use c1680–1690, esp. by Hickeringill. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > sharing > share [verb (intransitive)] scot?c1225 deal1297 partc1300 to take partc1384 departc1440 skair1462 impart1471 participate1531 communicate1541 to part stakes (also shares)1553 boot1554 partake1561 intercommune1601 copart1637 to go sharers1644 to run shares1644 intervene1646 go1653 to go a share1655 to share and share alike (formerly also like)1656 to go shares1658 to go share and share alikea1661 to go snips (or snip)1671 to go snacks (or snack)1693 to club one's shares1814 to cut in1890 (a) (b)1677 R. Thoresby Corr. (1830) II. 408 Some of our company went snips with them.1682 G. Topham Rome's Trad. 209 The Subtil Old Gentleman..offered him (if he would promote the Trade) to go Snips.1706 E. Baynard Cold Baths (1709) ii. 202 Those that go Snips with their Apothecaries, are Villains of the first Magnitude.1725 N. Bailey tr. Erasmus All Familiar Colloquies 338 The Gamester..promises I shall go Snips with him in what he shall win.a1800 S. Pegge Suppl. Grose's Provinc. Gloss. (1814) at Snaps 1861– in Sc. and north. dial. use ( Eng. Dial. Dict. ). 1671 J. Dryden Evening's Love v. 78 Pray, Sir, let me go snip with you in this lye. 1687 R. L'Estrange in E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne (new ed.) To Rdr. sig. A2v I recommend it to the Book-seller, for the common Benefit,..I go no snip with the Stationer. < as lemmas |
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