snidgen.
Now Lanc. dialect.
A greedy or miserly person.
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the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > [noun] > niggard or mean person > miser or hoarder of wealth
chinch?a1300
wretch1303
chincher1333
muckererc1390
mokerarda1400
muglard1440
gatherer?a1513
hoarder?a1513
warner1513
hardhead1519
snudge1545
cob1548
snidge1548
muckmonger1566
mucker1567
miser?1577
scrape-penny1584
money-miser1586
gromwell-gainer1588
muckscrape1589
muckworm1598
scrib1600
muckraker1601
morkin-gnoff1602
scrape-scall1602
incubo1607
accumulator1611
gripe-money1611
scrape-good1611
silver-hider1611
gripe1621
scrapeling1629
clutch1630
scrape-pelfa1640
volpone1672
spare-penny1707
save-all1729
bagger1740
spare-thrift1803
money-codger1818
hunger-rot1828
muckrake1850
muckthrift1852
gripe-penny1860
hugger-mugger1862
Scrooge1940
1548 W. Forrest Pleasaunt Poesye 97 in T. Starkey Eng. in Reign King Henry VIII (1878) i. p. lxxxvii Ffor suche solayne snydges [do thou] caste reformation By forfeture too the poores sustentation.
1855 J. Davies in Trans. Philol. Soc. 272 Snidge, a greedy, sordid person.
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n.1548- cattle-lifting
- cattle-maiming
- cattle-market
- cattle-minder
- cattle-pad
- cattle-park
- cattle-path
- cattle-pen
- cattle-piece
- cattle-pit
- cattle-plague
- cattle-post
- cattle-proof
- cattle-pump
- cattle-puncher
- cattle-punching
- cattle-racket
- cattle-raiding
- cattle-raik
- cattle-raiser
- cattle-raising
- cattle-range
- cattle-rearing
- cattle-road
- cattle-run