Lexicographical Neighbors of Snabble
Literary usage of Snabble
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"... to smug ; to snabble ; to snaggle ; to snake ; to snam ; to snap ; to snatch ;
to sneak ; to snipe ; to speak ; to spice ; to swipe ; to tool ; to touch ..."
2. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1890)
"snabble, to (old cant), to steal, plunder, sometimes to kill. snabble, as if
snapping up with the bill of a bird. ..."
3. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1850)
"Angl. MS. circa AD 1500. SNAAR. Greedy. Cumb. snabble. (1) to rifle ; to plunder ;
to kill. (2) To eat greedily. Dorset. ..."
4. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1886)
"SMUTTY, adj. Obscene. SNAAR, adj. Greedy. Cumi. snabble, ». (1) To plunder; to kill.
(2) To eat greedily. Dontt. ..."
5. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1857)
"Snuff. Howell. SMUTTY, adj. Obscene. SNAAR, adj. Greedy. Cumb. snabble, ».
(1) To plunder; to kill. (2) To eat greedily. Dorset. ..."
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