| 释义 |
hookum-snivey dial. and slang.|ˈhʊkəmˈsnɪvɪ|
Also hook and snivey (snivvy), hook 'em snivey, hookem snivey, hookem-snivvy, hook um snivey.
[app. orig. hook and snivey, prob. f. hook n. or v.]
An imposture or deceit; also, a contrivance for undoing the bolt of a door from the outside. Also attrib. or adj., deceitful, tricky.
1781G. Parker View Soc. II. 81 He..would stand no Hook and Snivey, or Nix the Buffer. 1802R. L. & M. Edgeworth Irish Bulls 129, I ranged them fair and even with my hook-em-snivey. 1823‘J. Bee’ Dict. Turf 98 Hook and Snivvy—practised by soldiers in quarters, when they obtain grub for nix, by connivance with the slavey, or her mistress. 1874Hotten Slang Dict. 194 Sometimes used as an irrelevant answer, by street boys. As, ‘who did that?’—‘Hook um snivey’—actually no one. 1892S. Hewett Peasant Speech of Devon 89, I tellee 'onesty is the best policy. Niver yü be up tü hookem-snivey ways. 1905E. Phillpotts Secret Woman ii. xi, An' some lying an' doing all manner of hookem-snivey deeds. 1928― Ring Fence xvi. 132 I'd a lot rather put my thoughts into work, so as you should have a wedding worthy of you and no hookem-snivey marrying in a corner. 1950L. A. G. Strong Which I Never vi. 184 'Tisn't like him to do any sort of hookem-snivvy tactics. |