snip
A tailor,—apparently from SNIPES, a pair of scissors, or from the snipping sound made by scissors in cutting up anything.
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snipe
A long bill or account; also a term for attorneys,—a race with a remarkable propensity for long bills.
snipe hunt
A futile or deceptive search
snipes
"a pair of SNIPES," a pair of scissors. They are occasionally made in the form of a snipe.
snitch
To turn snitch, or snitcher; to turn informer.
snitch
To give information to the police, to turn approver. SNITCHING is synonymous in thieves’ slang with "nosing" and "peaching."
snitcher
One who snitches; an informer or informant.
snitchers
Persons who turn Queen’s evidence, or who tell tales. In Scotland, SNITCHERS signify handcuffs.
snitches get stitches
Informants are often punished or retaliated against
snob
A nick name for a shoemaker.
snob-stick
A workman who refuses to join in strikes, or trade-unions. Amplification of KNOB-STICK.
snobbish
Stuck up, proud, make-believe.
snookered
Drunk.
snooks
An imaginary personage often brought forward as the answer to an idle question, or as the perpetrator of a senseless joke. Said to be simply a shortening or abbreviation of "Sevenoaks," the Kentish village.
snoop
To steal.
snoop around
To snoop.
snooze
Or SNOODGE (vulgar pronunciation), to sleep or doze.
snoozing ken
A brothel. The swell was spiced in a snoozing ken of his screens; the gentleman was robbed of his bank notes in a brothel.
snorker
A sausage.
snorter
A blow on the nose. A hurry is sometimes called a "reg’lar SNORTER."
snot
A term of reproach applied to persons by the vulgar when vexed or annoyed, meaning really a person of the vilest description and meanest capacity. In a Westminster school vocabulary for boys, published in the last century, the term is curiously applied. Its proper meaning is the glandular mucus discharged through the nose.
snotbox
A nose
snotter
Or WIPE-HAULER, a pickpocket whose chief fancy is for gentlemen’s pocket-handkerchiefs.—North.
snottinger
A coarse word for a pocket-handkerchief. The German Schnupftuch is, however, nearly as plain. A handkerchief was also anciently called a "muckinger" or "muckender," and from that a neckerchief was called a "neckinger."
snow
Linen hung out to dry or bleach. Spice the snow; to steal the linen.
snow
Wet linen, or linen hung out to dry.—Old Cant.
snow job
to deceive or persuade someone by talking excessively
snow on the mountaintop
A person's hair turning white with age
snow on the rooftop
Gray hair, indicating wisdom or age
snow out
to cancel an event due to snow
snow-gatherer
Or SNOW-DROPPER, a rogue who steals linen from hedges and drying-grounds.
snowball
A jeering appellation for a negro.
snowball effect
A situation where something grows or becomes more serious at an increasing rate
snowball in hell
Something very unlikely to happen or succeed.
snowball's chance in hell
No chance of success at all
snowden’s
Magistrate’s Assistant, and Constable’s Guide, thick small 8vo. 1852.
snowed under
Very busy.
snozzle
St Austell
snub nose
A short nose turned up at the end.
snudge
A thief who hides himself under a bed, in Order to rob the house.
snuff
To take snuff; to be offended.
snuff
"up to SNUFF," knowing and sharp; "to take SNUFF," to be offended. Shakspeare uses SNUFF in the sense of anger, or passion.
snuff it
To die. Term very common among the lower orders of London. A fanciful variation of "putting one’s light out," and used simply in reference to the action of the person dying. Thus any one threatening to murder another says, "I’ll put your light out," or any one committing suicide is said to "put his own light out;" but to "SNUFF IT" is always to die from disease or accident. To "lay down one’s knife and fork," to "peg out," or "give up," are variations of this form of euphemism.
snuff out
To extinguish (literally, especially by physically covering or rubbing); to extinguish (figuratively): to stop (a process), to kill (a process).
snuffles
A cold in the head, attended with a running at the nose.
snuffy
Drunk.
snug
All's snug; all's quiet.
snuggie
A wedgie.
snuggle
To lie closely and cosily.
snuggle bunny
A term of endearment for someone cute and affectionate
snyder
A tailor. German, SCHNEIDER.
so
Homosexual.
so as to do something
in order to achieve a particular purpose
so be it
Accepting something as inevitable or unavoidable
so called from its great breadth
It required two weavers, side by side, to fling the shuttle across it. Originally two yards wide, now about fifty-four inches; but the word is now used to signify a fine, plain-wove, black cloth.
So called in honour of Athene
As now used the name usually denotes a literary or scientific institution.
so far
until now or a specified point
so far so good
Everything is going well up to this point
so long as
provided that a condition is met
So man is called by Paracelsus
The ancients considered the world (see MACROCOSM) as a living being; the sun and moon being its two eyes, the earth its body, the ether its intellect, and the sky its wings.
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