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Definition of Snooked
1. snook [v] - See also: snook
Lexicographical Neighbors of Snooked
Literary usage of Snooked
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bulletin Story Book: A Selection of Stories and Literary Sketches from by Bulletin (Sydney, Alfred George Stephens (1901)
"If, when a coal-heaver snooked into Governor ... gave 'im time to draw breath
before firin' 'im out; or when I snooked into the ..."
2. A Glossary of Words Used in the County of Chester by Robert Holland (1886)
"I'm snooked," ie. I am taken in, I am sold. L. SNOP, v. to bite the young shoots
of a hedge, as lambs do. L. SNOTCH, s. a knot or notch. Gen. ..."
3. A Glossary of Words Used in the Dialect of Cheshire by Egerton Leigh (1877)
"I'm snooked," ie, I am taken in, I am sold. L. SNOP, v.—To bite the young shoots
of a hedge, as lambs do ; a sort of a cross between crop and snap. ..."
4. A glossary of words used in the dialect of Cheshire, founded on a similar by Egerton Leigh, Roger Wilbraham (1877)
"I'm snooked," ie, I am taken in, I am sold. L. SNOP, v.—To bite the young shoots
of a hedge, as Iambs do ; a sort of a cross between crop and snap. ..."
5. Publications by English Dialect Society (1886)
"SNIGGER, v. to laugh in a sneering way. SNITE, s. mucus nasi. W. SNITTER, ».
to creep or walk slowly. L. snooked,/ar/. over-reached. ..."
6. Camp-fire Verse by Joseph Le Roy Harrison (1917)
"We paddled off a-whisperin' beneath the long birch limbs An' we snooked along as
silent as a sucker when he swims; I could hear him slow his paddle as ..."
7. Camp-fire Verse by Joseph Le Roy Harrison (1917)
"We paddled off a-whisperin' beneath the long birch limbs An' we snooked along as
silent as a sucker when he swims; I could hear him slow his paddle as ..."
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