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snip-snap-ˈsnorum
[a. LG. snipp-snapp-snorum (also -snurr), = G. schnipp-schnapp-schnorum (or -schnurr), on which see the article in Grimm's Dict.]
A round game of cards, played (esp. by the young) in various ways, in which the players on turning up the requisite cards respectively call ‘snip’, ‘snap’, and ‘snorum’.
In R. Hardie Hoyle made familiar (1830) 80 the game is called ‘Snip, Snap, Snore 'em’, and in describing it the words snip, snap, and snore are employed.
1755Connoisseur No. 52 ⁋6, I saw these strange women place themselves at a huge round table..to play..at Pope Joan and Snip-snap-snorum! 1784Laura & Augustus I. 98 The..enlivening snip-snap snorum; which game they were then playing. 1820Mrs. Trench Rem. 439 His wife, his children, his garden,..fill up his day; as snip-snap-snorum does his evening. 1834Southey Doctor (1837) IV. 72 It had been found convenient to set down the children..to Pope-Joan, or snip-snap-snorum, which was to them a more amusing because a noisier game. 1887Besant The World Went xxiv, Bess..could play All-fours, Put, Snip-snap-snorum. |