snag
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
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”).
Inflected forms:
form: snags
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: snags
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: snagging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: snagged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: snagged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch.
pos: noun
examples: The coat of arms / Now on a naked snag in triumph borne.
gloss: A dead tree that remains standing.
pos: noun
gloss: A tree, or a branch of a tree, fixed in the bottom of a river or other navigable water, and rising nearly or quite to the surface, by which boats are sometimes pierced and sunk.
pos: noun
examples: ‘A’most used-up I am, I do declare!’ she observed. ‘The jolting in the cars is pretty nigh as bad as if the rail was full of snags and sawyers.’
[…]I watched for sunken stones; I was learning to clap my teeth smartly before my heart flew out, when I shaved by a fluke some infernal sly old snag that would have ripped the life out of the tin-pot steamboat and drowned all the pilgrims;[…]
gloss: Any sharp protuberant part of an object, which may catch, scratch, or tear other objects brought into contact with it.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: A tooth projecting beyond the others; a broken or decayed tooth.
pos: noun
examples: To ſee our Women's Teeth look white. / And ev'ry ſaucy ill-bred Fellow / Sneers at a Mouth profoundly yellow. / In China none hold Women ſweet, / Except their Snags are black as jett.
gloss: A problem or difficulty with something.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: we hit a snag
The snag in this business of falling in love, aged relative, is that the parties of the first part so often get mixed up with the wrong parties of the second part, robbed of their cooler judgment by the parties of the second part's glamour.
Scarcity of outstanding content viewed as snag for unproved and highly priced Vision Pro device[.]
gloss: A pulled thread or yarn, as in cloth; a tear.
pos: noun
gloss: One of the secondary branches of an antler.
pos: noun
gloss: To catch or tear (e.g. fabric) upon a rough surface or projection.
pos: verb
examples: Be careful not to snag your stockings on that concrete bench!
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
examples: The steamboat was snagged on the Mississippi River in 1862.
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
examples: We snagged for spoonbill from the eastern shore of the Mississippi River.
gloss: To obtain or pick up, especially in a quick or surreptitious way.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: Ella snagged a bottle of water from the fridge before leaving for her jog.
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.
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.
gloss: To cut the snags or branches from, as the stem of a tree; to hew roughly.
pos: verb
tags: UK
dialectal
examples: When felled and snagged, one end of the tree is placed upon a small sledge, and dragged out of the bush by oxen
gloss: To have noncommittal sexual relations.
pos: verb
tags: slang
examples: Shit, I remember when you were just rugged, bro. Snagging around and tepee-creeping at the stomp dance.
Derived words: hit a snag
snag-boat
snagging list
snaggy
snaglike
snag list
antisnag
snagger
snaggle
snagless
snagline
snagproof
snag some z's
snag up
sniggle
unsnag
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