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单词 sneeshing
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sneeshingn.

Brit. /ˈsniːʃɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈsniʃɪŋ/, Scottish English /ˈsniʃɪŋ/, /ˈsniʃɪn/, Irish English /ˈsniːʃɪŋ/
Forms: α. 1700s snishon, snishen, 1800s snishan (1700s snichen, snitian), 1700s–1800s snishin(g. β. 1600s, 1800s sneeshon, 1800s sneeshan, 1700s–1800s sneeshin(g, sneeshin', 1800s sneechin(g, etc.
Etymology: Alteration of sneezing n. 2b, perhaps after Highland or Irish pronunciation: compare Scottish Gaelic snaoisean, Irish snaoisín.
Scottish (Irish English) and northern dialect.
1. Snuff.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > snuff > [noun]
sneeze1632
sneezing1648
smutchin1650
snush1671
snuff1683
nose gunpowder1706
pulvil1706
sneeshing1714
macouba1827
dip1853
snoose1912
snous1962
α.
1714 Craig Answer in R. Smith Poems 12 Thy vile snichen, and thy brose.
1720 A. Pennecuik Streams from Helicon (ed. 2) i. 65 A Mill with Snitian, to pepper her Nose.
1724 A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (1733) I. 91 A Mill of good snishing to prie.
1761 in Hull Select Lett. (1778) I. 314 I have sent you a little Provision of the best Preston-Pans Snuff,..with one Bottle of Highland Snishon.
1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor xi, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. I. 314 Bid her fill my mill wi' snishing.
1847 J. S. Le Fanu T. O'Brien 213 Take a pinch iv the snishin.
β. 1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Sneeshin,..the vulgar name for snuff.1816 W. Scott Antiquary II. vi. 177 A' the siller I need is just to buy tobacco and sneeshin.1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet II. vii. 146 Will ye try my sneeshing?1900 S. R. Crockett Little Anna Mark xxi The noblest sneeshan in the worl'.
2. A pinch of snuff. Chiefly with negatives, used to denote something of very slight value or significance.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > snuff > [noun] > pinch of
sneeshing1686
snush1703
snuff1724
sneesh1817
the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > of little worth
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1686 G. Stuart Joco-serious Disc. 13 I drew my Box, and teuk a sneeshon.
1723 W. Meston Knight in Poems (1767) 25 Else they are not worth a snishen.
1787– in Scottish use ( Eng. Dial. Dict. ).
3. attributive, as sneeshing-box, sneeshing-horn, sneeshing-mill or sneeshing-mull.
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1717 A. Ramsay Elegy Lucky Wood x To the sma' hours we aft sat still, Nick'd round our toasts and snishing-mill.
1780 W. Forbes Dominie Depos'd i. 79 His fishing-wand, his sneeshing~box.
1786 R. Burns Twa Dogs xx, in Poems 16 The luntan pipe, an' sneeshin mill, Are handed round wi' right guid will.
1816 W. Scott Antiquary II. viii. 215 I could take my aith to that sneeshing-mull amang a thousand.
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. at Sneeshin Sneeshin-Horn, a horn used for holding snuff.
1858 M. Porteous Real Souter Johnny (ed. 2) 28 I'm Souter Johnny's sneeshin'-Box.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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