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▪ I. snig, n.1|snɪg|
Also 5–6 snygge, 6, 8–9 snigg.
[Of obscure origin.]
1. A young or small eel; a grig. In later use a distinct species of eel (see quots.).
1483Cath. Angl. 347/1 A Snygge, vbi a ele. 1570Levins Manip. 118/44 A Snig, anguillæ genus. 1586–7Shuttleworths' Acc. (Chetham Soc.) 35 Syxtene snygges, ijs ijd. 1601Holland Pliny ix. li, Those scrapings (as it were) which are fretted from them [sc. eels], in time come to take life, and prove snigs. 1664H. Power Exp. Philos. i. 32 Eels in Vinegar..appear like small Silver-Eells, or little Snigs. 1688Holme Armoury ii. 325/1 An Eel, first a Fausen, then a Grigg, or Snigg, then a Scaffling, then a little Eel [etc.]. c1746Collier (Tim Bobbin) View Lanc. Dial. (1775) 43, I feel hoose os fat os o Snig. 1781–in dial. glossaries (N. Cy., Lanc., Chesh., Warw., Wilts., Hants., etc.). 1836Yarrell Brit. Fishes II. 302 The Hampshire Snig differs from our other Eels in its habit of roving and feeding during the day. 1863H. C. Pennell Angler-Naturalist 400 The Snig, or Medium-nosed Eel (Anguilla mediorostris). 1883G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads xxxi. (1884) 242 The grig or snig, a yellowish eel with a projecting under-lip.
fig.1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osorius 384 b, This heroycall Gyant..despising and loathing these small snigges of Babish Haddon.
2. attrib. and Comb., as snig-eel, snig-pie, snig-pot, etc.
Other examples are given in the Eng. Dial. Dict.
1836Yarrell Brit. Fishes II. 301 Anguilla mediorostris, Snig Eel. 1861Waugh Rambles Lake Cy. 24 They'd etten so mich snig-pie..that [etc.]. 1865G. F. Berkeley Life & Recoll. II. 316, I was looking at some snig-pots..in my fishery. 1883Day Fishes Gt. Brit. II. 242 Sharp-nosed-eel, Dublin-eel, Broad-nosed-eel, Snig-eel.
▪ II. † snig, n.2 Obs.—1
[Cf. snig v.1, and nig n.1]
A covetous or avaricious person.
1629Gaule Holy Madnesse 322 A Couetous Man..hath more Names, than euer he was christend with. The Best call him no better, than you would call a Wretch;..Cark, Snig, Gripe, Sharke [etc.].
▪ III. † snig, n.3 Obs. rare.
[? Dim. of snag n.1]
A slight projection or process.
1649J. Bulwer Pathomyot. ii. i. 59 The other [muscle] ariseth from the Snig of the seventh Vertebre of the Neck. Ibid., The knob of the first vertebre of the Neck, which holds Analogy with the Snigs of the other vertebres of the Back.
▪ IV. † snig, v.1 Obs.—1
(Sense not quite clear: cf. snig n.2)
1642D. Rogers Naaman 211 Others are so dangerously worldly, snigging and biting, usurers, hard and oppressing.
▪ V. snig, v.2 north. dial., Austral., N.Z., and Canad. local.|snɪg|
[Origin obscure.]
trans. To drag (a heavy load, esp. timber) by means of ropes and chains. Hence ˈsnigging vbl. n.1 (also attrib.).
For further material see Eng. Dial. Dict.
1790F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. (ed. 2), Snig, to drag wood without a cart. 1866J. T. Staton Rays fro' th' Loominary 127 He wur one ut wur brought up to sniggin timber. 1933L. G. D. Acland in Press (Christchurch, N.Z.) 2 Dec. 15/7 Snig, to drag along the ground by horse or bullocks, especially to drag logs or other timber. The stout chain which goes round the log has a ring at one end, and a hook to which the horses' chains are attached. It is called a snigging chain. 1946B. James in Murdoch & Drake-Brockman Austral. Short Stories (1951) 251 Peter cut timber on the hills, and snigged it down with the plough horses. 1961B. Crump Hang on a Minute Mate 44 They dug their axes into a handy stump and trudged off down the snigging-track. 1968E. R. Buckler Ox Bells & Fireflies xv. 221 A group of men have gathered to help another lay a new sill under his barn. ‘Hadn't I better hitch up the team and snig her closer the foundation there?’ 1969Parade (Austral.) Dec. 17/2 He would get his horse and snig Trompson's body off the claim. 1975Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 1 June 6/2 Bullock teams would snig the logs to the winder.
▪ VI. snig, v.3 dial. and slang.|snɪg|
[Origin obscure.]
intr. and trans. To steal.
1862C. C. Robinson Dial. Leeds 415 Snig, to steal after a mean fashion, as a man who undertakes any business, or interests himself any way in the property of a person, and is ‘snigging’ away at it all the time. 1864J. Ramsbottam Phases of Distress 37 They'll pitch an' toss an' swear, An' snig an' snatch owt wheer they con. 1892Kipling Barrack-Room Ballads 31 If you've ever snigged the washin' from the line. |