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Snooks|snuːks|
A proper name or familiar appellation applied to a hypothetical person in a particular case (see quots.); also, any individual person. Cf. Joe Bloggs s.v. Joe n.2 5 c.
1860Hotten Dict. Slang (ed. 2) 221 Snooks, an imaginary personage often brought forward as the answer to an idle question, or as the perpetrator of a senseless joke. 1919G. B. Shaw Inca of Perusalem in Heartbreak House 214 Well, what about Snooks? 1922Ld. Riddell Some Things that Matter ix. 108 ‘50 per cent of the inhabitants of Bunkumville who use this valuable adjunct to health and personal beauty wear Snooks's Expanders, which are undoubtedly the best.’ That may be true, but I omit to mention that only two persons in Bunkumville wear chest expanders, one of whom is Snooks himself. 1959Times 8 Dec. 13/4 The recommended formula goes something like this: ‘This is Flaxway 5768. Mr. Snooks is out. If you wish to leave a message, go ahead.’.. Snooks, returning eventually to base, presses a button, and the machine reels off all the messages. |