snick-snarln.

Forms: Also 1600s snigsnarl.

Etymology: < snarl n.¹, with obscure first element; compare the common northern dialect snock-snarl.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsnick-snarl.

Now dialect.

A tangle, knot, twist. Also figurative.

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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > entanglement or entangled state > [noun] > that which is entangled > a tangle

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1649 J. Lightfoot Battle with Wasp's Nest in Wks. I. 383 I could deduce such conclusions from these premises, that would make his opinion..run so on snicksnarles, that..he would find enough to do to unknot it again.

1675 V. Alsop Anti-Sozzo 277 It were tedious to instance..how they run their Enemies all on Heaps, and perplex their Discourses all into Snicksnarles.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 288/2 The Yarn..is..tied up with a Lay Band, to keep it from ravalling or running into Snigsnarles or Knotted up.

1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Snick-snarles, the complication of thread, yarn, &c., the state of its being entangled.

1862 Oldham Standard 5 Apr. 2/4 (Cassell) Somebody must unravel the snick-snarls in the hank which somebody else had no more wit than to tangle.

1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining 145 Kank, a twist or snick~snarl in a rope.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

单词	snick-snarl
释义	snick-snarln. Forms: Also 1600s snigsnarl. Etymology: < snarl n.¹, with obscure first element; compare the common northern dialect snock-snarl.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsnick-snarl. Now dialect. A tangle, knot, twist. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > entanglement or entangled state > [noun] > that which is entangled > a tangle node1572 knarl1598 snarl1609 rivel1625 ravel1634 snick-snarl1649 mare1688 harla1697 tangle1757 round turn1769 fankle1824 twist1858 twitter1876 taut1887 1649 J. Lightfoot Battle with Wasp's Nest in Wks. I. 383 I could deduce such conclusions from these premises, that would make his opinion..run so on snicksnarles, that..he would find enough to do to unknot it again. 1675 V. Alsop Anti-Sozzo 277 It were tedious to instance..how they run their Enemies all on Heaps, and perplex their Discourses all into Snicksnarles. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 288/2 The Yarn..is..tied up with a Lay Band, to keep it from ravalling or running into Snigsnarles or Knotted up. 1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Snick-snarles, the complication of thread, yarn, &c., the state of its being entangled. 1862 Oldham Standard 5 Apr. 2/4 (Cassell) Somebody must unravel the snick-snarls in the hank which somebody else had no more wit than to tangle. 1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining 145 Kank, a twist or snick~snarl in a rope. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.1649
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