snegn.
Obsolete exc. dialect.
A snail. Cf. snag n.3
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > order Pulmonifera > Inoperculata > family Helicidae > member of
sneg1340
limacea1492
cochle?1527
house snail1562
shell-snail1600
hoddy-dod1601
land-winkle1601
hodmandod1626
snag1674
vine-snail1829
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 32 Þo anlikneþ þan þet ne dar naȝt guo ine þe peþe uor þane snegge þet sseaweþ him his hornes.
1880–7 in Kentish and Cornish glossaries.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
snegv.
Scottish.
transitive. To cut. Jamieson (1808) also gives sneg as a noun.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > cutting > cut [verb (transitive)]
snithec725
carvec1000
cutc1275
slitc1275
hag1294
ritc1300
chop1362
slash1382
cut and carvea1398
flash?a1400
flish?a1400
slenda1400
race?a1425
raise?a1425
razea1425
scotch?c1425
ochec1440
slitec1450
ranch?a1525
scorchc1550
scalp1552
mincea1560
rash?1565
beslash1581
fent1589
engrave1590
nick1592
snip1593
carbonado1596
rescide1598
skice1600
entail1601
chip1609
wriggle1612
insecate1623
carbonate1629
carbonade1634
insecta1652
flick1676
sneg1718
snick1728
slot1747
sneck1817
tame1847
bite-
1718 A. Ramsay Christ's-kirk on Green iii. 27 [She] sneg'd the Raips fow snack, Wi'er Knife that Day.
1735 A. Ramsay Addr. Thanks from Society of Rakes 9 Bring to the Warld the luckless Wean, And sneg its Infant-Thrapple.
1808–57 in Eng. Dial. Dict.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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