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snick-a-snee ? Obs.
Also 7 -sne.
[Cf. prec. and snick or snee.]
1. A combat with cut-and-thrust knives.
1673A. Behn Dutch Lover iii. iii, There lies my sword, and..I tell you I am as good at Snick-a-sne as the best Don of you all. 1688B. Willy On Dutch War in Jane Barker Poet. Recreat. ii. 56 But they'll e'er long come to themselves you'll see When we in earnest are at Snick-a-snee. 1767S. Paterson Another Trav. II. 115 We may..possibly have a few bouts at snik-a-snee.
2. A cut-and-thrust knife. Also attrib.
1760Brit. Chron. 6 Aug. 127 One Turner..with a snick-a-snee stabbed her several times in her body. 1832Marryat N. Forster xlix, Flemish seamen, with their long snick-a-snee knives. 1837― Snarleyyow liv, Jansen stepped forward with his snickasee [sic], the rope was divided at once. 1865in Slang Dict. 238. |