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▪ I. snaggle, n. Chiefly dial. and colloq.|ˈsnæg(ə)l|
[app. f. snag n.1: cf. snaggle-tooth.]
1. A snaggle-tooth; one who has snaggle-teeth. rare.
1823M. Wilmot Let. 1 Oct. (1935) 197 Blanche [has] become alas a snaggle! Those dear little pearls of teeth are going. 1880Courtney & Couch Gloss. Words Cornwall 52/2 What snaggles the cheeld has.
2. A tangle; a knotted or projecting mass.
1904Eng. Dial. Dict. V. 567/1 Snaggle,..a knotted, entangled condition. 1968C. Helmericks Down Wild River North ii. xxii. 336 The girls pitched our tent in the sparse, pristine plant population between rock snaggles. 1978T. Hughes in Times Lit. Suppl. 14 Apr. 409/1 All eyes watch The weathered, rooty, bushy pile of faces, A snaggle of faces.
3. attrib., as snaggle-tusk.
1922Joyce Ulysses 424 The famished snaggletusks of an elderly bawd protrude from a doorway.
▪ II. ˈsnaggle, v. slang.
(See quots.)
1839Slang Dict. 34 Snaggling, driving geese into a corner in a stubble-field. 1864Slang Dict. (Hotten) 238 Snaggling, angling after geese with a hook and line, the bait being a worm or snail. |