snagglen.
/ˈsnaɡ(ə)l/ Chiefly dialect and colloquial.
1. A snaggle-tooth; one who has snaggle-teeth. rare.
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the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > mouth > types or spec. teeth > [noun] > broken or irregular
stumpc1430
snag1617
snag-tooth1655
snaggle-tooth1820
snaggle1823
spronk1838
snaggle-tusk1922
the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > mouth > types or spec. teeth > [noun] > broken or irregular > person
snaggle-tooth1820
snaggle1823
1823 M. Wilmot Let. 1 Oct. (1935) 197 Blanche [has] become alas a snaggle! Those dear little pearls of teeth are going.
1880 M. A. Courtney W. Cornwall Words in M. A. Courtney & T. Q. Couch Gloss. Words Cornwall 52/2 What snaggles the cheeld has.
2. A tangle; a knotted or projecting mass.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > entanglement or entangled state > [noun] > that which is entangled > tangled mass
matting?1615
wreath1648
scurry1839
jungle1850
fog1869
tangle-twine1878
tardle1898
snaggle1904
1904 Eng. Dial. Dict. V. 567/1 Snaggle,..a knotted, entangled condition.
1968 C. Helmericks Down Wild River North ii. xxii. 336 The girls pitched our tent in the sparse, pristine plant population between rock snaggles.
1978 T. Hughes in Times Lit. Suppl. 14 Apr. 409/1 All eyes watch The weathered, rooty, bushy pile of faces, A snaggle of faces.
3. attributive, as snaggle-tusk.
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the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > mouth > types or spec. teeth > [noun] > broken or irregular
stumpc1430
snag1617
snag-tooth1655
snaggle-tooth1820
snaggle1823
spronk1838
snaggle-tusk1922
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 410 The famished snaggletusks of an elderly bawd protrude from a doorway.
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snagglev.
slang.
(See quots.)
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1839 H. Brandon Dict. Flash or Cant Lang. in W. A. Miles Poverty, Mendicity & Crime 165/2 Snaggling, driving geese into a corner in a stubble-field.
1864 J. C. Hotten Slang Dict. (new ed.) 238 Snaggling, angling after geese with a hook and line, the bait being a worm or snail.
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