Lexicographical Neighbors of Snebbe
Literary usage of Snebbe
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"22; snebbe, Spenser, Shep. Kal., Feb., 126. In prov. use in Lancashire (EDD.).
In Chaucer, CTA 525, some MSS. have snebbe. ..."
2. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"This substantive has not been met with elsewhere. To snebbe. The same as to sneap,
or tmib. That on a time he cast him for to scold, ..."
3. A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1882)
"Dimin. of O. Du. snabbe, snebbe, bill, beak. lit. ' snapper ; ' put for snappe *
... O. Du. snebbe, beak, lit. snapper, ^f See also Snub. Snare, a noose. ..."
4. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"Cf. O. Du. snabbe, snebbe, ' the bill of a bird,' Hexham, which is the same word,
.... The older form is sneb or snib ; spelt snebbe, Spenser, Shep. Kal. ..."
5. A Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: Supplement by John Jamieson (1825)
"Enc. Perhaps from S. Snib, to fasten, or Tent, snebbe a beak, and bit, ghe-bii ;
because it acts as a check or bit to the animal that wears it. ..."
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