cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
sled
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /slɛd/
rhymes: -ɛd
Forms: form: sleds
Etymology: From Middle English sledde, from Middle Dutch sledde or Middle Low German sledde (compare Dutch slee, slede, Low German Sleden), from Proto-Germanic *slidô (compare Saterland Frisian sliede, German Schlitten, Norwegian slede). Doublet of sleigh; also related to slide.
Senses: examples: text: The child zoomed down the hill on his sled.
glosses: A small, light vehicle with runners, used recreationally, mostly by children, for sliding down snow-covered hills; no draft animal pulls it.
examples: text: "Mush!" he yelled at the dogs pulling the sled.
coordinate_terms: sleigh
glosses: A vehicle on runners, used for conveying loads over the snow or ice, and often pulled by sled dogs.
examples: text: We saw them go by on their sleds this afternoon, headed toward their grandfather's quarter section.
glosses: A snowmobile.
examples: text: Near-synonyms: land yacht, boat
text: He was a bit reckless and frankly we were nervous about riding with him in that big old sled of his, a Cadillac with a V-8.
text: That sled had manual drum brakes on all four corners.
glosses: A car (automobile) or truck, usually called so with the implication of sledlike traits: heavy, low-slung, and prone to going fast but not braking or cornering particularly well.
Derived terms: bobsled
dogsled
ice sled
kick-sled
NOP sled
rocket sled
sledding
sled dog
sledhead
sled head
sled hockey
snow sled shovel
spoon sled
threshing sled
Related terms: autosled
sledge
sleigh
toboggan
sled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /slɛd/
rhymes: -ɛd
Forms: form: sleds
form: sledding
form: sledded
form: sledded
Etymology: From Middle English sledde, from Middle Dutch sledde or Middle Low German sledde (compare Dutch slee, slede, Low German Sleden), from Proto-Germanic *slidô (compare Saterland Frisian sliede, German Schlitten, Norwegian slede). Doublet of sleigh; also related to slide.
Senses: glosses: To ride a sled.
glosses: To convey on a sled.
sleek
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sliːk/
rhymes: -iːk
Forms: form: sleeker
form: sleekest
Etymology: A late variant of slick; cognate to German schleichen (Old High German slihhan) and Dutch slijk (“mud, slime”). Compare slink.
Senses: examples: text: sleek hair
text: So sleek her skin, so faultless was her make.
ref: 1717, John Dryden, Samuel Garth, et al., “Book 1”, in Metamorphoses, translation of Metamorphoses by Ovid, line 837:
synonyms: word: frictionless
word: silky
word: downy
word: even
word: flat
word: frictionless
word: lanate
word: level
word: silken
word: silklike
word: silky
word: sleek
word: slick
word: slight
word: smooth
word: velutinous
word: velvety
glosses: Having an even, smooth surface; smooth
synonyms: word: glacé
word: sheeny
word: glacé
word: glassy
word: glossy
word: lacquerlike
word: satiny
word: sheeny
word: sleek
word: slickered
word: vitreous
glosses: Glossy.
examples: text: Those rugged names to our like mouths grow sleek.
ref: 1673, John Milton, “Sonnet 11”, in Poems, line 10:
synonyms: civilized
classy
elegant
graceful
refined
glosses: Not rough or harsh.
examples: text: But if it were like a rabbit that Rosa went, she came back like a weasel or some such sleek and lissom creature.
ref: 1961, Xavier Herbert, Soldiers' Women, Netley, SA: Fontana Books, published 1978, page 99:
synonyms: word: lithe
word: svelte
word: gaunt
word: gracile
word: lank
word: lean
word: leansome
word: lithe
word: lithesome
word: lissome
word: rangy
word: sleek
word: slender
word: slight
word: slim
word: slinky
word: svelte
word: swack
word: sylphlike
word: willowy
glosses: Slim and streamlined; not plump, thick, or stocky.
glosses: Healthy, well-fed and well-groomed; in good condition.
raw_tags: of stock animals
examples: text: 'Are these the Carrara marbles?' the lady queried. 'Yes, madam,' responded the sleek salesman.
ref: 1892, The Critic, volume 20, page 229:
glosses: Dated form of slick (“convincing but untrustworthy”).
Derived terms: sleekly
sleekness
sleekstone
sleek
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /sliːk/
rhymes: -iːk
Etymology: A late variant of slick; cognate to German schleichen (Old High German slihhan) and Dutch slijk (“mud, slime”). Compare slink.
Senses: synonyms: clean
slick
glosses: With ease and dexterity.
sleek
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sliːk/
rhymes: -iːk
Forms: form: sleeks
form: sleeking
form: sleeked
form: sleeked
Etymology: A late variant of slick; cognate to German schleichen (Old High German slihhan) and Dutch slijk (“mud, slime”). Compare slink.
Senses: examples: text: The sloping brush sleeks the surface.
ref: 1895, The New Technical Educator, page 258:
glosses: To make smooth or glossy; to polish.
glosses: To calm or soothe.
glosses: To glide.
sleek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sliːk/
rhymes: -iːk
Etymology: A late variant of slick; cognate to German schleichen (Old High German slihhan) and Dutch slijk (“mud, slime”). Compare slink.
Senses: glosses: That which makes smooth; varnish.
sleigh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: slā
ipa: /sleɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
homophone: slay
Forms: form: sleighs
Etymology: From Modern Dutch slee, from Middle Dutch slede, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *slidô. Doublet of sled and further related to slide.
Senses: examples: text: Santa travels in a sleigh.
text: In 1958, it was reported that for "the fourth year in succession, staff of four South London stations have combined to decorate the booking hall at Peckham Rye station". They installed a nativity scene, models of Father Christmas, and a sleigh driven by huskies, and Christmas trees were placed around the station.
ref: 2023 December 27, David Turner, “Silent lines...”, in RAIL, number 999, page 29:
glosses: A vehicle, generally pulled by an animal, which moves over snow or ice on runners, used for transporting persons or goods. (contrast "sled", which is smaller)
Derived terms: Nantucket sleigh ride
sleigh bed
sleigh bell
sleigh shovel
Related terms: sled
sledge
toboggan
sleigh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: slā
ipa: /sleɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
homophone: slay
Forms: form: sleighs
form: sleighing
form: sleighed
form: sleighed
Etymology: From Modern Dutch slee, from Middle Dutch slede, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *slidô. Doublet of sled and further related to slide.
Senses: glosses: To ride or drive a sleigh.
Derived terms: sleigher
sleigh
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: slā
ipa: /sleɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
homophone: slay
Forms: form: sleigher
form: sleighest
Senses: glosses: Sly.
sleight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /slaɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
homophone: slight
Forms: form: sleights
Etymology: From Middle English sleighte, sleyght, sleythe, from Old Norse slœgð (“cunning”), from Proto-Germanic *slōgiþō, from *slōgiz (“cunning”) (whence English sly). Doublet of sly and slöjd/sloyd.
Senses: glosses: Cunning; craft; artful practice.
examples: text: If men have so many sleights to compass their matters, how can the compasser himself hold his fingers?
ref: 1866, Henry Smith, Thomas Fuller, The Sermons of Mr. Henry Smith, page 37:
glosses: An artful trick; sly artifice; a feat so dexterous that the manner of performance escapes observation.
glosses: Dexterous practice; dexterity; skill.
Related terms: sleight of hand
sleightly
sleighty
slice
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /slaɪs/
rhymes: -aɪs
Forms: form: slices
form: slicing
form: sliced
form: sliced
Etymology: From Middle English sclise, sklise, from Old French esclice, esclis (“a piece split off”), deverbal of esclicer, esclicier (“to splinter, split up”), from Frankish *slitjan (“to split up”), from Proto-Germanic *slitjaną, from Proto-Germanic *slītaną (“to split, tear apart”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleyd- (“to rend, injure, crumble”). Akin to Old High German sliz, gisliz (“a tear, rip”), Old High German slīzan (“to tear”), Old English slītan (“to split up”), modern French éclisse. More at slite, slit.
Senses: examples: text: Slice the cheese thinly.
glosses: To cut into slices.
examples: text: The knife left sliced his arm.
glosses: To cut with an edge using a drawing motion.
glosses: To clear (e.g. a fire, or the grate bars of a furnace) by means of a slice bar.
qualifier: badminton
glosses: To hit the shuttlecock with the racket at an angle, causing it to move sideways and downwards.
topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To hit a shot that slices (travels from left to right for a right-handed player).
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
rowing
sports
glosses: To angle the blade so that it goes too deeply into the water when starting to take a stroke.
examples: text: Chris Brunt sliced the spot-kick well wide but his error was soon forgotten as Olsson headed home from a corner.
ref: 2011 October 22, Sam Sheringham, “Aston Villa 1 – 2 West Brom”, in BBC Sport:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: To kick the ball so that it goes in an unintended direction, at too great an angle or too high.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
glosses: To hit the ball with a stroke that causes a spin, resulting in the ball swerving or staying low after a bounce.
Derived terms: any way one slices it
no matter how one slices it
no matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney
salami-slice
sliceable
slice and dice
sliced bread
slice off
slicer
slice the pie
slice through
slice up
slow slicing
slice
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /slaɪs/
rhymes: -aɪs
Etymology: From Middle English sclise, sklise, from Old French esclice, esclis (“a piece split off”), deverbal of esclicer, esclicier (“to splinter, split up”), from Frankish *slitjan (“to split up”), from Proto-Germanic *slitjaną, from Proto-Germanic *slītaną (“to split, tear apart”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleyd- (“to rend, injure, crumble”). Akin to Old High German sliz, gisliz (“a tear, rip”), Old High German slīzan (“to tear”), Old English slītan (“to split up”), modern French éclisse. More at slite, slit.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having the properties of a slice knot.
slight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: slīt
ipa: /slaɪt/
ipa: [slɑjt]
ipa: /slæʔ/
ipa: [sl̥æ̙ːʔ]
ipa: [sl̥ɐɪt]
ipa: [sl̥əɪ̯t]
note: African-American, General South African
ipa: /slaːt/
ipa: /slɑɪt/
ipa: /slɒɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
homophone: sleight
Forms: form: slights
Etymology: From Middle English slight (“bad, of poor quality, unimportant, trivial, slender, slim, smooth, level”), from Old English sliht (“smooth, level”), from Proto-Germanic *slihtaz (“slippery, flat, level, plain”), related to English slick. Cognate with Scots slicht (“bad, of poor quality”), West Frisian sljocht (“smooth, level, plain, simple”), Dutch slecht (“bad”), Low German slecht (“bad”), German schlecht (“bad”) and schlicht (“plain, artless, natural”), Danish slet (“bad, evil, poor, nasty, wrong”), Swedish slät (“smooth”), Norwegian slett (“even”), Icelandic sléttur (“even, smooth, level”).
Senses: examples: text: Never use a slighting expression to her, even in jest; for slights in jest, after frequent bandyings, are apt to end in angry earnest.
ref: 1793, Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin:
text: But you, you're not allowed
 You're uninvited
 An unfortunate slight
ref: 1997, Alanis Morissette, “Uninvited”, performed by Alanis Morissette:
synonyms: ignoring
neglect
belittlement
antonyms: respect
glosses: The act of ignoring or snubbing; a deliberate act of neglect or discourtesy.
examples: text: For till that stownd could never wight him harme,
By subtilty, nor slight, nor might, nor mighty charme.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XXXVI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Sleight.
Derived terms: put a slight on
put a slight upon
slime
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: slīm
ipa: /slaɪm/
ipa: /slɑem/
ipa: /slaɪm/
ipa: [slɑe̯m]
rhymes: -aɪm
rhymes: -aɪ
Forms: form: slimes
form: sliming
form: slimed
form: slimed
Etymology: From Middle English slime, slyme, slim, slym, from Old English slīm, from Proto-West Germanic *slīm, from Proto-Germanic *slīmą, from Proto-Indo-European *sley- (“smooth; slick; sticky; slimy”). Cognates include Saterland Frisian Sliem, Dutch slijm, German Schleim (“mucus, slime”), Danish slim, Faroese slím (“slime”), Latin limus (“mud”), Ancient Greek λίμνη (límnē, “marsh”).
Senses: examples: text: ‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared.[…]’
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 7, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
text: Missy gave a low, snuffly bark and butted my hand, effectively sliming it.
ref: 2014, Sparkle Abbey, Fifty Shades of Greyhound:
glosses: To coat with slime.
glosses: To besmirch or disparage.
examples: text: If so, this job was better than sliming salmon any day.
ref: 1999, Dana Stabenow, So Sure of Death, page 20:
text: You and me bunked in that dorm on the hill, remember? And slimed fish under that tin roof down there.
ref: 2013, William B. McCloskey, Raiders: A Novel, →ISBN:
glosses: To carve (fish), removing the offal.
glosses: To move like slime.
glosses: To behave in a slimy, unethical manner.
glosses: To murder.
glosses: To denigrate or slander.
sliver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslɪv.ə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈslɪv.ɚ/
rhymes: -ɪvə(ɹ)
Forms: form: slivers
Etymology: From Middle English slivere, sliver from Middle English sliven (“to cut, cleave, split”), from Old English slīfan (as in tōslīfan (“to split, split up”)).
Senses: examples: text: This is the tasting ritual, the lay Eucharist of cheese. The buyer squeezes the sliver of cheese between his fingers to test its consistency, sniffs it, and then tastes it as delicately as if it were the most subtle caviar.
ref: 1972, Félix Martí-Ibáñez, The mirror of souls, and other essays, page 339:
text: A sliver of bone has punctured a lung, and a small surgical operation was needed to remove it (would he like to keep the bone as a memento?--it is in a phial by his bedside).
ref: 2013, J. M. Coetzee, chapter 27, in The Childhood of Jesus, Melbourne, Australia: The Text Publishing Company, page 270:
synonyms: shard
slice
splinter
glosses: A long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment.
synonyms: shard
slice
splinter
spelk
spill
glosses: A long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment.
Specifically, a splinter caught under the skin.
qualifier: Sussex; Upper Midwestern US; Sussex; Upper Midwestern US
glosses: A strand, or slender roll, of cotton or other fiber in a loose, untwisted state, produced by a carding machine and ready for the roving or slubbing which precedes spinning.
topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: Bait made of pieces of small fish.
glosses: A narrow high-rise apartment building.
synonyms: word: bit
word: ounce
word: ace
word: tinge
word: atom
word: trace element
word: aught
word: bissel
word: bit
word: crumb
word: glimpse
word: dab
word: damn
word: dash
word: diddly
word: glint
word: dot
word: spatter
word: drop
word: dusting
word: fleck
word: hint
word: flip
word: flyspeck
word: grain
word: halfpennyworth
word: inch
word: iota
word: jot
word: lick
word: mite
word: modicum
word: molecule
word: morceau
word: morsel
word: mote
word: ooch
word: ounce
word: particle
word: pennyworth
word: piece
word: pinch
word: scantling
word: semblance
word: scent
word: scintilla
word: scooch
word: scrap
word: scruple
word: shred
word: skerrick
word: skoosh
word: skosh
word: sliver
word: smattering
word: smidge
word: smidgen
word: smidget
word: smidgy
word: smitch
word: smithereen
word: soupçon
word: spark
word: speck
word: speckle
word: spot
word: sprinkle
word: sprinkling
word: strain
word: tad
word: tidbit
word: tidge
word: tittle
word: toddick
word: touch
word: trace
word: trifle
word: tuppence worth
word: vestige
word: whiff
word: whit
glosses: A small amount of something; a drop in the bucket; a shred.
Derived terms: sliver moon
Related terms: chum
slither
sliver
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslɪv.ə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈslɪv.ɚ/
rhymes: -ɪvə(ɹ)
Forms: form: slivers
form: slivering
form: slivered
form: slivered
Etymology: From Middle English slivere, sliver from Middle English sliven (“to cut, cleave, split”), from Old English slīfan (as in tōslīfan (“to split, split up”)).
Senses: examples: text: to sliver wood
text: slips of yew,
Sliver'd in the moon's eclipse
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
text: They'll sliver thee like a turnip.
ref: 1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:
glosses: To cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit.
slouch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /slaʊt͡ʃ/
ipa: [slaʊt͡ʃ]
ipa: [slawt͡ʃ]
ipa: [sləwt͡ʃ]
ipa: [slæɔt͡ʃ]
rhymes: -aʊtʃ
Forms: form: slouches
Etymology: Unclear. Perhaps from Middle English slugge, from Old Norse slókr (“lazy fellow”). See also Swedish sloka (“to slouch, wilt”), related to Swedish slak (“slack, soft and flexible”) and Latin laxus (“loose, slack”).
Senses: examples: text: He sat with an unenthusiastic slouch.
glosses: A hanging down of the head; a drooping posture; a limp appearance
examples: text: The plant hung in a permanent slouch.
glosses: Any depression or hanging down, as of a hat brim.
examples: text: In any case, Scotland has been no slouch at national invention. The Greek temple to commemorate James Thomson wasn’t the only monument raised by the 11th Earl of Buchan, who was a friend and neighbour of Walter Scott, and as great a romancer in his obsession with ruins, battlements and fancy dress.
ref: 16 September 2014, Ian Jack, “Is this the end of Britishness”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: idler
loafer
laggard
underachiever
achiever
go-getter
glosses: Someone who is slow to act.
glosses: An awkward, heavy, clownish fellow.
Derived terms: slouch hat
slouch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /slaʊt͡ʃ/
ipa: [slaʊt͡ʃ]
ipa: [slawt͡ʃ]
ipa: [sləwt͡ʃ]
ipa: [slæɔt͡ʃ]
rhymes: -aʊtʃ
Forms: form: slouches
form: slouching
form: slouched
form: slouched
Etymology: Unclear. Perhaps from Middle English slugge, from Old Norse slókr (“lazy fellow”). See also Swedish sloka (“to slouch, wilt”), related to Swedish slak (“slack, soft and flexible”) and Latin laxus (“loose, slack”).
Senses: examples: text: Do not slouch when playing a flute.
synonyms: stoop
droop
loll
glosses: To hang or droop; to adopt a limp posture
examples: text: I slouched to the fridge to see if there was anything to eat.
glosses: To walk in a clumsy, lazy manner.
examples: text: […] then he slouched his head down on the table and pretended to sleep.
ref: 1896, Duncan Campbell Scott, In the Village of Viger, page 107:
text: Disappointment slouched him into the pew.
ref: 2012, Kim Vogel Sawyer, When Hope Blossoms, page 281:
glosses: To cause to hang down or droop; to depress.
sly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /slaɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
Forms: form: slier
form: slyer
form: sliest
form: slyest
form: sligh
Etymology: From Middle English sly, sley, sleigh, sleiȝ, from Old Norse slǿgr (“sly, cunning”, literally “capable of hitting or striking”), from Proto-Germanic *slōgiz (“lively, agile, cunning, sly, striking”), from Proto-Indo-European *slak- (“to hit, throw”).
Cognate with Icelandic slægur (“crafty, sly”), Norwegian Nynorsk sløg (“sly”). Related to sleight, slay. In all likelihood, however, unrelated with Saterland Frisian slau (“sly, crafty”), Dutch sluw (“sly, cunning”), Low German slu (“sly, cunning”), German schlau (“clever, crafty”). Doublet of sleight and slöjd
Senses: glosses: Artfully cunning; secretly mischievous; wily.
synonyms: nimble
skillful
cautious
shrewd
qualifier: having a positive connotation
glosses: Dexterous in performing an action, so as to escape notice
examples: text: a sly trick
glosses: Done with, and marked by, artful and dexterous secrecy; subtle
glosses: Light or delicate; slight; thin.
Synonyms: artful
crafty
cunning
knowing
sharp
shifty
shrewd
slim
sly as a fox
wily
Derived terms: by the sly
on the sly
sly as a fox
slyboots
sly dog
sly fox
sly-grog
slyness
sly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /slaɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
Forms: form: sligh
Etymology: From Middle English sly, sley, sleigh, sleiȝ, from Old Norse slǿgr (“sly, cunning”, literally “capable of hitting or striking”), from Proto-Germanic *slōgiz (“lively, agile, cunning, sly, striking”), from Proto-Indo-European *slak- (“to hit, throw”).
Cognate with Icelandic slægur (“crafty, sly”), Norwegian Nynorsk sløg (“sly”). Related to sleight, slay. In all likelihood, however, unrelated with Saterland Frisian slau (“sly, crafty”), Dutch sluw (“sly, cunning”), Low German slu (“sly, cunning”), German schlau (“clever, crafty”). Doublet of sleight and slöjd
Senses: glosses: Slyly.
smack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /smæk/
rhymes: -æk
Forms: form: smacks
Etymology: The noun is from Middle English smac, smak, smacke, from Old English smæc, smæċċ (“taste, smatch”), from Proto-West Germanic *smakku, from Proto-Germanic *smakkuz (“a taste”), from Proto-Indo-European *smegʰ-, *smeg- (“to taste”). The verb is from Middle English smaken.
Cognate with English dialectal smatch, Scots smak (“scent, smell, taste, flavour”), Saterland Frisian Smoak (“taste”), West Frisian smaak (“taste”), Dutch smaak (“taste”), German Schmack, Geschmack (“taste”), Danish smag (“taste”), Swedish and Norwegian smak (“taste”), Norwegian smekke . Akin to Old English smæċċan (“to taste, smack”). More at smatch.
Senses: examples: text: rice pudding with a smack of cinnamon
text: I did not call him fool, and vex my friend, / But quietly allowed experiment, / Encouraged him to dust his drink, and now / Grate lignum vitæ now bruise so-called grains / Of Paradise, and now, for perfume, pour / Distilment rare, the rose of Jericho, / Holy-thorn, passion-flower, and what know I? / Till beverage obtained the fancied smack.
ref: 1873 January 23, Robert Browning, “Part IV”, in Red Cotton Night-Cap Country: Or Turf and Towers, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC, page 245:
text: But take it: if the smack is sour / The better for the embittered hour; […]
ref: 1896, A[lfred] E[dward] Housman, “(please specify the poem number)”, in A Shropshire Lad, New York, N.Y.: John Lane Company, The Bodley Head, published 1906, →OCLC:
glosses: A distinct flavor, especially if slight.
examples: text: He was not sailorly, and yet he had a smack of the sea about him too.
ref: 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
text: I like my cousins in Holland immensely, but I feel more sib to the Northerners. Your description of Lofoten is fine. I can see them. They must be enchanting in their way, cod's head and tails or no. There is a fine eau de Javelle smack about a Dutch canal, by the way, that takes[…]
ref: 1906, Oliver Elton, Frederick York Powell: A Life and a Selection from His Letters and Occasional Writings, page 249:
glosses: A slight trace of something; a smattering.
examples: text: Claude overdosed on smack in a Chicago flophouse three years later.
ref: 2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 191:
synonyms: word: Big H
word: boy
word: brown sugar
word: brown
word: bujj
word: diacetylmorphine
word: diamorphine
word: dog food
word: dope
word: henry
word: heroin
word: horse
word: H
word: junk
word: muck
word: mud
word: ron
word: scag
word: smack
word: spider
word: sugar
word: whiteboy
word: white lady
word: yam yam
glosses: Heroin.
glosses: A form of fried potato; a scallop.
Derived terms: foresmack
like smack
smackless
smackhead
smack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /smæk/
rhymes: -æk
Forms: form: smacks
form: smacking
form: smacked
form: smacked
Etymology: The noun is from Middle English smac, smak, smacke, from Old English smæc, smæċċ (“taste, smatch”), from Proto-West Germanic *smakku, from Proto-Germanic *smakkuz (“a taste”), from Proto-Indo-European *smegʰ-, *smeg- (“to taste”). The verb is from Middle English smaken.
Cognate with English dialectal smatch, Scots smak (“scent, smell, taste, flavour”), Saterland Frisian Smoak (“taste”), West Frisian smaak (“taste”), Dutch smaak (“taste”), German Schmack, Geschmack (“taste”), Danish smag (“taste”), Swedish and Norwegian smak (“taste”), Norwegian smekke . Akin to Old English smæċċan (“to taste, smack”). More at smatch.
Senses: examples: text: He soon smacked the taste of physic hidden in this sweetness.
ref: 1827, Thomas Carlyle (translator), Johann August Musæus, "Melechsala" (1782-86); in German Romance I. 175
glosses: To get the flavor of.
examples: 1820-25, Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia
He had his tea and hot rolls in a morning, while we were battening upon our quarter-of-a-penny loaf — our crug — moistened with attenuated small beer, in wooden piggings, smacking of the pitched leathern jack it was poured from.
glosses: To have a particular taste; used with of.
examples: text: Her reckless behavior smacks of pride.
text: All sects, all ages, smack of this vice.
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
glosses: To indicate or suggest something; used with of.
smack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /smæk/
rhymes: -æk
Forms: form: smacks
Etymology: From Middle Low German smack (Low German Schmacke, Schmaake (“small ship”)) or Dutch smak, perhaps ultimately related to smakken, imitative of the sails' noise.
Senses: examples: text: But without Union reinforcement, as many men as could be packed into a mere fishing smack could take the fort, Meigs wrote to Washington.
ref: 2009, Simon Schama, The American Future: A History:
glosses: A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade and often called a fishing smack
glosses: A group of jellyfish.
Derived terms: fishing-smack
smack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /smæk/
rhymes: -æk
Forms: form: smacks
Etymology: From Middle English *smakken, from Middle Dutch smacken (modern Dutch smakken (“to smack, pop, hurl down, crash”)), from Old Dutch *smakkon, from Proto-West Germanic *smak(k)ōn, ultimately of imitative origin.
Cognate West Frisian smakke, Middle Low German smacken (“to hit, hurl, fling”), Plautdietsch schmaksen (“to smack the lips”), German schmatzen (“eat noisily”), regional German schmacken, Schmackes (“vigour”) (compare Swedish smak (“slap”), the first part of Saterland Frisian smakmuulje (“to smack, slap”)).
Senses: glosses: A sharp blow; a slap. See also: spank.
examples: text: he took the bride about the neck. And kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack.
ref: c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
text: Then he told them of the princess, how she came to him, and how much she had to kiss him to get the whistle, when nobody saw or heard it over in the wood - "I must get on with these lies if the vat is to be full," said Ashiepattle, - so he told them about the queen, how stingy she was with the money and how liberal she was with kisses, that one could hear the smacks all over the wood.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 178:
glosses: The sound of a loud kiss.
glosses: A quick, sharp noise, as of the lips when suddenly separated, or of a whip.
Derived terms: lay the smack down
smack in the face
smack talk
talk smack
smack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /smæk/
rhymes: -æk
Forms: form: smacks
form: smacking
form: smacked
form: smacked
Etymology: From Middle English *smakken, from Middle Dutch smacken (modern Dutch smakken (“to smack, pop, hurl down, crash”)), from Old Dutch *smakkon, from Proto-West Germanic *smak(k)ōn, ultimately of imitative origin.
Cognate West Frisian smakke, Middle Low German smacken (“to hit, hurl, fling”), Plautdietsch schmaksen (“to smack the lips”), German schmatzen (“eat noisily”), regional German schmacken, Schmackes (“vigour”) (compare Swedish smak (“slap”), the first part of Saterland Frisian smakmuulje (“to smack, slap”)).
Senses: glosses: To slap or hit someone.
examples: text: A horse neighed, and a whip smacked, there was a whistle, and the sound of a cart wheel.
ref: 1832, Benjamin Disraeli, Contarini Fleming:
glosses: To make a smacking sound.
qualifier: especially outside of North America
glosses: To strike a child (usually on the buttocks) as a form of discipline. (normal U.S. and Canadian term spank)
examples: text: But when, obedient to the mode / Of panegyric, courtly ode / The bard bestrides, his annual hack, / In vain I taste, and sip and smack, / I find no flavour of the Sack.
ref: 1763, Robert Lloyd, “A Familiar Epistle”, in St. James Magazine:
glosses: To wetly separate the lips, making a noise, after tasting something or in expectation of a treat.
glosses: To kiss with a close compression of the lips, so as to make a sound when they separate.
Derived terms: lip-smacking
smack around
smack down
smack out
smack up
smack
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /smæk/
rhymes: -æk
Etymology: From Middle English *smakken, from Middle Dutch smacken (modern Dutch smakken (“to smack, pop, hurl down, crash”)), from Old Dutch *smakkon, from Proto-West Germanic *smak(k)ōn, ultimately of imitative origin.
Cognate West Frisian smakke, Middle Low German smacken (“to hit, hurl, fling”), Plautdietsch schmaksen (“to smack the lips”), German schmatzen (“eat noisily”), regional German schmacken, Schmackes (“vigour”) (compare Swedish smak (“slap”), the first part of Saterland Frisian smakmuulje (“to smack, slap”)).
Senses: examples: text: Right smack in the middle.
text: After one early moment in their courtship, Franny expresses, "That night I could feel my beauty standing up inside me for the first time in my life." These heightened scenes of discovery are offered smack amidst moods of vicious aggression and unresolvable separation, keeping Unusual Company rich with subtle twists.
ref: 1987 December 13, Elizaeth Pincus, “Gritty Love”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 22, page 9:
glosses: As if with a smack or slap; smartly; sharply.
Derived terms: smack bang
smack-dab
snag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsnæɡ/
rhymes: -æɡ
Forms: form: snags
form: snagging
form: snagged
form: snagged
Etymology: From earlier snag (“stump or branch of a tree”), from Middle English *snagge, *snage, from Old Norse snagi (“clothes peg”) (compare Old Norse snag-hyrndr (“snag-horned, having jagged corners”)), perhaps ultimately from a derivative of Proto-Germanic *snakk-, *snēgg, variations of *snakaną (“to crawl, creep, wind about”).
Compare Norwegian snag, snage (“protrusion; projecting point”), Icelandic snagi (“peg”). Also see Dutch snoek (“pike”).
Senses: examples: text: Be careful not to snag your stockings on that concrete bench!
glosses: To catch or tear (e.g. fabric) upon a rough surface or projection.
examples: text: The steamboat was snagged on the Mississippi River in 1862.
glosses: To damage or sink (a vessel) by collision; said of a tree or branch fixed to the bottom of a navigable body of water and partially submerged or rising to just beneath the surface.
examples: text: We snagged for spoonbill from the eastern shore of the Mississippi River.
topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: To fish by means of dragging a large hook or hooks on a line, intending to impale the body (rather than the mouth) of the target.
examples: text: Ella snagged a bottle of water from the fridge before leaving for her jog.
text: Tickets are cheaper the younger you are—snag a youth ticket (if you're twenty-five or under) for a 35 percent discount. If both you and your travel partner are twenty-six or older, the Small Group Saver will knock off 15 percent.
ref: 2017, Off Track Planet's Travel Guide for the Young, Sexy, and Broke:
text: Your upcoming Instagram beach photos are begging you to snag this bright orange maxi. BEGGING. Like, oof! Do you see that high slit? 10/10. No notes.
ref: 2023 June 16, Megan Uy, “25 Absolutely Gorgeous Crochet Clothing Pieces You Won’t Stop Wearing This Summer”, in Cosmopolitan:
glosses: To obtain or pick up, especially in a quick or surreptitious way.
examples: text: When felled and snagged, one end of the tree is placed upon a small sledge, and dragged out of the bush by oxen
ref: 1846, Sir Richard Levinge, “Echoes from the Backwoods”, in The New Monthly, volume 76:
glosses: To cut the snags or branches from, as the stem of a tree; to hew roughly.
examples: text: Shit, I remember when you were just rugged, bro. Snagging around and tepee-creeping at the stomp dance.
ref: 2021 September 20, “Satvrday”, in Reservation Dogs, spoken by Big:
qualifier: Native American
glosses: To have noncommittal sexual relations.
Derived terms: snag some z's
snag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsnæɡ/
rhymes: -æɡ
Forms: form: snags
Etymology: The Australian National Dictionary Centre suggests that snag as slang for "sausage" most likely derives from the earlier British slang for "light meal", although it makes no comment on how it came to be specifically applied to sausages.Meanings and origins of Australian words and idioms The word's use in football slang originates as a shortening of "sausage roll", rhyming slang for "goal", to sausage, and hence, by synonymy, snag.
Senses: glosses: A light meal.
examples: text: I fire up the barbie and start cooking snags.
ref: 2005, Peter Docker, Someone Else′s Country, ReadHowYouWant, published 2010, page 116:
text: ‘You can get the chooks and snags from the fridge if you want,’ he replied.
I smiled, remembering my bewilderment upon receiving exactly the same command at my very first barbecue back in Sydney a month after I′d first arrived.
ref: 2007, Jim Ford, Don't Worry, Be Happy: Beijing to Bombay with a Backpack, page 196:
text: ‘Hungry? We′ve got plenty of roo,’ one of the men said as she walked up. He pointed with his spatula, ‘and pig snags, cow snags, beef and chicken.’
ref: 2010, Fiona Wallace, Sense and Celebrity, page 25:
synonyms: word: banger
word: snarler
glosses: A sausage.
examples: 2003, Greg Baum, "Silver anniversary of a goal achieved", The Age
"It just kept coming down and I just kept putting them through the middle," he said. "I got an opportunity, and I kicked a few snags."
qualifier: Australian rules football
glosses: A goal.
snag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsnæɡ/
rhymes: -æɡ
Forms: form: snags
Senses: glosses: A misnaged, an opponent to Chassidic Judaism (more likely modern, for cultural reasons).
snag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsnæɡ/
rhymes: -æɡ
Forms: form: snags
form: SNAG
Senses: examples: text: Over time, the ‘sensitive’ aspect of the SNAG has become paramount.
ref: 1999, Anthony McMahon, Taking Care of Men: Sexual Politics in the Public Mind, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 103:
text: Mediadates offers handy tips for online dating virgins and a list of popular abbreviations used in website chatrooms. So you can tell a shag from a "Snag" - sensitive new age guy.
ref: 2006 September 22, Jason Deans, “Single white media male. GSOH …”, in The Guardian:
text: Naturally, the Frat Boy and the Toadmeister decided to hold a contest to see who could “drop the hammer” with Pippi first. Chris’s strategy was to pretend to be a “snag” (Sensitive New Age Guy) in the hope of appealing to her alternative side.
ref: 2008 [2001], Toby Young, How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, Philadelphia, PA: Da Capo, →ISBN, page 76:
glosses: Acronym of sensitive new age guy.
Related terms: New Man
snap
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /snæp/
rhymes: -æp
Forms: form: snap!
Etymology: From Dutch snappen (“to bite; seize”) or Low German snappen (“to bite; seize”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *snappōn, from Proto-Germanic *snappōną (“to snap; snatch; chatter”), intensive form of *snapāną (”to snap; grab”, whence Old Norse snapa (“to get; scrounge”)), from Proto-Indo-European *snop-; compare Lithuanian snãpas (“beak, bill”). (One alternative hypothesis links the Germanic words to *snu-, an expressive root deriving words meaning “nose”, “snout”, “sniff” etc., but this is phonetically unsound.) In any case influenced by onomatopoeia; note expressions such as snip-snap, containing the formally unrelated snip.
Cognate with West Frisian snappe (“to get; catch; snap”), German schnappen (“to grab”), Swedish snappa (“to snatch”).
The verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: glosses: The cry used in a game of snap when winning a hand.
examples: text: Snap! We've both got pink buckets and spades.
glosses: "I've got one the same!", "Me too!"
glosses: Used to express agreement.
examples: text: I just ran over your phone with my car. —Oh, snap!
glosses: Used in place of an expletive to express surprise, usually in response to a negative statement or news; often used facetiously.
examples: text: —Wasn't that John? —Wasn't that John? —Snap!
synonyms: jinx
glosses: Used after something is said by two people at exactly the same time.
snap
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /snæp/
rhymes: -æp
Etymology: From Dutch snappen (“to bite; seize”) or Low German snappen (“to bite; seize”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *snappōn, from Proto-Germanic *snappōną (“to snap; snatch; chatter”), intensive form of *snapāną (”to snap; grab”, whence Old Norse snapa (“to get; scrounge”)), from Proto-Indo-European *snop-; compare Lithuanian snãpas (“beak, bill”). (One alternative hypothesis links the Germanic words to *snu-, an expressive root deriving words meaning “nose”, “snout”, “sniff” etc., but this is phonetically unsound.) In any case influenced by onomatopoeia; note expressions such as snip-snap, containing the formally unrelated snip.
Cognate with West Frisian snappe (“to get; catch; snap”), German schnappen (“to grab”), Swedish snappa (“to snatch”).
The verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: a snap judgment or decision
text: a snap political convention
text: Now I should consider it a very snap judgment or a snap diagnosis for anybody to come into a medical society
ref: 1889, The Kansas City Medical Index-Lancet, volume 10, number 8:
glosses: Done, made, performed, etc., quickly and unexpectedly, or without deliberation.
Derived terms: snap election
snarl
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsnɑː(ɹ)l/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)l
Forms: form: snarls
form: snarling
form: snarled
form: snarled
Etymology: From Middle English snarlen, frequentative of snaren (“to trap, tangle”). Equivalent to snare + -le.
Senses: examples: text: to snarl a skein of thread
text: And from her backe her garments she did teare, / And from her head oft rent her snarled heare[…]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 17:
glosses: To entangle; to complicate; to involve in knots.
glosses: To become entangled.
examples: November 9, 1550, Hugh Latimer, Sermon Preached at Stanford
[the] question that they would have snarled him with
glosses: To place in an embarrassing situation; to ensnare; to make overly complicated.
glosses: To be congested in traffic, or to make traffic congested.
glosses: To form raised work upon the outer surface of (thin metal ware) by the repercussion of a snarling iron upon the inner surface; to repoussé
Derived terms: ensnarl
snarl up
snarl-up
snarling iron
unsnarl
snarl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsnɑː(ɹ)l/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)l
Forms: form: snarls
Etymology: From Middle English snarlen, frequentative of snaren (“to trap, tangle”). Equivalent to snare + -le.
Senses: synonyms: entanglement
glosses: A knot or complication of hair, thread, or the like, difficult to disentangle.
synonyms: imbroglio
glosses: An intricate complication; a problematic difficulty; a knotty or tangled situation.
examples: text: The biggest cities feel the most acute impact of the last mile – of the squads of trucks and vans, the parcel hubs and sorting centres, the parking snarls and the discarded boxes.
ref: 2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A slow-moving traffic jam.
snarl
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsnɑː(ɹ)l/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)l
Forms: form: snarls
form: snarling
form: snarled
form: snarled
Etymology: Frequentative of earlier snar (“to growl”), perhaps from Middle Low German snorren (“to drone”), of probably imitative origin. Equivalent to snar + -le. Related to German schnarren (“to rattle”) and schnurren (“to hum, buzz”).
Senses: glosses: To growl angrily by gnashing or baring the teeth; to gnarl; to utter grumbling sounds.
glosses: To complain angrily; to utter growlingly.
examples: text: It is malicious and unmanly to snarl at the little lapses of a pen, from which Virgil himself stands not exempted.
ref: 1697, John Dryden, “Preface to the Pastorals, with a Short Defence of Virgil, against Some of the Reflections of Monsieur Fontanelle [i.e., Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle]”, in Virgil, translated by John Dryden, The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To speak crossly; to talk in rude, surly terms.
Derived terms: snarling
snarlingly
snarl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsnɑː(ɹ)l/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)l
Forms: form: snarls
Etymology: Frequentative of earlier snar (“to growl”), perhaps from Middle Low German snorren (“to drone”), of probably imitative origin. Equivalent to snar + -le. Related to German schnarren (“to rattle”) and schnurren (“to hum, buzz”).
Senses: glosses: The act of snarling; a growl; a surly or peevish expression; an angry contention.
glosses: A growl, for example that of an angry or surly dog, or similar; grumbling sounds.
glosses: A squabble.
Derived terms: snarl word
sneak
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sniːk/
rhymes: -iːk
Forms: form: sneaks
form: sneaking
form: sneaked
form: sneaked
form: snuck
form: snuck
Etymology: Possibly from Middle English sniken (“to creep, crawl”), from Old English snīcan (“to creep, crawl”), from Proto-West Germanic *snīkan, from Proto-Germanic *snīkaną (“to creep, crawl”), which is related to the root of snake. Compare Danish snige (“to sneak”), Swedish snika (“to sneak, hanker after”), Icelandic sníkja (“to sneak, hanker after”). Possibly related to snitch.
Senses: examples: text: He decided to sneak into the kitchen for a second cookie while his mom was on the phone.
text: Some of these were dressed most gorgeously, others becomingly, and several sneaked in with fantail bangers, calling themselves "Gentlemen of the Nineteenth Century."
ref: 1885 July 9, The Hamilton Spectator, page 4:
synonyms: skulk
steal
slink
glosses: To creep or go stealthily; to come or go while trying to avoid detection, as a person who does not wish to be seen.
examples: text: I went to sneak a chocolate but my dad caught me.
glosses: To take something stealthily without permission.
examples: text: She asked me to sneak her a phone next month.
glosses: To stealthily bring someone something.
examples: text: [Slander] sneaks its head.
ref: 1701, William Wake, A rationale upon some texts of Scripture:
glosses: To hide, especially in a mean or cowardly manner.
examples: text: If you sneak on me I'll bash you!
synonyms: grass
snitch
tell tales
glosses: To inform an authority of another's misdemeanours.
Synonyms: word: creep
word: hake
word: sneak
word: shug
word: skulk
word: slink
word: slive
word: steal
word: tiptoe
Hypernyms: word: hide
word: move
Derived terms: sneak around
sneaker
sneakflation
sneakily
sneak in
sneakiness
sneaking suspicion
sneak out
sneak past
sneak peek
sneak preview
sneaksome
sneak thief
sneak up
sneaky
Related terms: word: covert
word: move slowly
sneak
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sniːk/
rhymes: -iːk
Etymology: Possibly from Middle English sniken (“to creep, crawl”), from Old English snīcan (“to creep, crawl”), from Proto-West Germanic *snīkan, from Proto-Germanic *snīkaną (“to creep, crawl”), which is related to the root of snake. Compare Danish snige (“to sneak”), Swedish snika (“to sneak, hanker after”), Icelandic sníkja (“to sneak, hanker after”). Possibly related to snitch.
Senses: examples: text: The company gave us a sneak look at their new electronic devices.
glosses: In advance; before release to the general public.
examples: text: I was able to get a sneak peek at the guest list.
text: I have ordered House Atreides to occupy Arrakis to mine the spice, thus replacing their enemies the Harkonnens. House Atreides will not refuse because of the tremendous power they think they will gain. Then, at an appointed time, Baron Harkonnen will return to Arrakis and launch a sneak attack on House Atreides. I have promised the Baron five legions of my Sardaukar terror troops.
ref: 1984, 8:38 from the start, in Dune (Science Fiction), →OCLC:
glosses: In a stealthy or surreptitious manner.
Derived terms: sneak attack
sneak peek
sneak preview
snide
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /snaɪd/
rhymes: -aɪd
Forms: form: snider
form: snidest
Etymology: Probably from a dialectal variant of snithe (“sharp, cutting, cold”). See snithe (adjective).
Alternatively, possibly a metathetic corruption of Middle English snythand (“piercing (the heart), cold, biting”, literally and figuratively). More at snithe (verb).
Compare typologically cutting, Russian ко́лкий (kólkij) (akin to коло́ть (kolótʹ)).
Senses: examples: text: Don't make snide remarks to me.
text: You write your snide bullshit from a dark room because that's what the angry do nowadays. I was nice to you, don't torture me for it.
ref: 2010, Aaron Sorkin, The Social Network, spoken by Erica Albright (Rooney Mara):
glosses: Disparaging or derisive in an insinuative way.
examples: text: Have nothing to do with snide goods; let it be known throughout the world that the farmers and dairymen, yea, and those engaged in other industries in the great State of Illinois, produce only the best of everything in their lines, and we will be the last to feel the effects of over-production.
ref: 1890, Illinois State Dairymen's Association, Annual Report (volume 16, page 21)
text: I knew without studying them that the rings and the watch were snide, and the jewel a paste one; but they were damn fine counterfeits.
ref: 2002, Sarah Waters, chapter 1, in Fingersmith, London: Virago, →ISBN, part 1, page 19:
glosses: Tricky; deceptive; false; spurious; contemptible.
Derived terms: snide pitcher
snide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /snaɪd/
rhymes: -aɪd
Forms: form: snides
Etymology: Probably from a dialectal variant of snithe (“sharp, cutting, cold”). See snithe (adjective).
Alternatively, possibly a metathetic corruption of Middle English snythand (“piercing (the heart), cold, biting”, literally and figuratively). More at snithe (verb).
Compare typologically cutting, Russian ко́лкий (kólkij) (akin to коло́ть (kolótʹ)).
Senses: glosses: An underhanded, tricky person given to sharp practice; a sharper; a cheat.
glosses: Counterfeit money.