| 单词 | to turn snitch |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto turn snitch 3. An informer; one who turns King's or Queen's evidence. In the phrase to turn snitch. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > informing on or against > [noun] > informer wrayerc1000 wrobberc1300 discoverera1400 denunciator1474 informer1503 denouncer1533 detector1541 delatora1572 sycophant1579 inquisitor1580 scout1585 finger man1596 emphanista1631 quadruplator1632 informant1645 eastee-man1681 whiddler1699 runner1724 stag1725 snitch1785 qui tam1788 squeak1795 split1819 clype1825 telegraph1825 snitcher1827 Jack Nasty1837 pigeon1847 booker1863 squealer1865 pig1874 rounder1884 sneak1886 mouse1890 finger1899 fizgig1902 screamer1902 squeaker1903 canary1912 shopper1924 narker1932 snurge1933 cheese eater1935 singer1935 tip-off1941 top-off1941 tout1959 rat fink1961 whistle-blower1970 1785 in F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue c1800 in Ld. Byron Juan xi. xix. Note 14 She'll surely turn snitch for the forty—That her Jack may be regular weight. 1903 Charities 7 Nov. 408 Let it be agreed that everybody can ‘snitch’ upon everybody else without being called a ‘dirty little snitch’. 1906 Atlantic Monthly Nov. 589 He employs that phenomenon of despicability..in Western parlance called a snitch..to work up the lawsuit. 1930 Forum Dec. 375/1 A police informer in New York, for instance, is a stool or snitch. 1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren x. 189 The tell tale is..a sly, a snitch or snitcher (common, especially in the Midlands). 1965 J. Wainwright Death in Sleeping City 142 The ‘snitches’ and the ‘grassers’ and the ‘stoolpigeons’ whispered out of the corner of their mouths, and money changed hands. 1979 S. Rifkin McQuaid in August ix. 97 Lopez was an informant..a paragon among snitches. < as lemmas |
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