snooln.
/snuːl/, U.S. /snul/, Scottish English /snul/ Scottish and northern dialect.
A tame, abject, or mean-spirited person.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > condition of being held in contempt > [noun] > state or quality of being contemptible > contemptible person
wormc825
wretchOE
thingOE
hinderlingc1175
harlot?c1225
mixa1300
villain1303
whelpc1330
wonnera1340
bismera1400
vilec1400
beasta1425
creaturec1450
dog bolt1465
fouling?a1475
drivel1478
shit1508
marmoset1523
mammeta1529
pilgarlica1529
pode1528
slave1537
slim1548
skit-brains?1553
grasshopper1556
scavenger1563
old boss1566
rag1566
shrub1566
ketterela1572
shake-rag1571
skybala1572
mumpsimus1573
smatchetc1582
squib1586
scabship1589
vassal1589
baboon1592
Gibraltar1593
polecat1593
mushroom1594
nodc1595
cittern-head1598
nit1598
stockfish1598
cum-twang1599
dish-wash1599
pettitoe1599
mustard-token1600
viliaco1600
cargo1602
stump1602
snotty-nose1604
sprat1605
wormling1605
brock1607
dogfly?1611
shag-rag1611
shack-rag1612
thrum1612
rabbita1616
fitchock1616
unworthy1616
baseling1618
shag1620
glow-worm1624
snip1633
the son of a worm1633
grousea1637
shab1637
wormship1648
muckworm1649
whiffler1659
prig1679
rotten egg1686
prigster1688
begged fool1693
hang-dog1693
bugger1694
reptile1697
squinny1716
snool1718
ramscallion1734
footer1748
jackass1756
hallion1789
skite1790
rattlesnake1791
snot1809
mudworm1814
skunk1816
stirrah1816
spalpeen1817
nyaff1825
skin1825
weed1825
tiger1827
beggar1834
despicability1837
squirt1844
prawn1845
shake1846
white mouse1846
scurf1851
sweep1853
cockroach1856
bummer1857
medlar1859
cunt1860
shuck1862
missing link1863
schweinhund1871
creepa1876
bum1882
trashbag1886
tinhorn1887
snot-rag1888
rodent1889
whelpling1889
pie eatera1891
mess1891
schmuck1892
fucker1893
cheapskate1894
cocksucker1894
gutter-bird1896
perisher1896
skate1896
schmendrick1897
nyamps1900
ullage1901
fink1903
onion1904
punk1904
shitepoke1905
tinhorn sport1906
streeler1907
zob1911
stink1916
motherfucker1918
Oscar1918
shitass1918
shit-face1923
tripe-hound1923
gimp1924
garbage can1925
twerp1925
jughead1926
mong1926
fuck?1927
arsehole1928
dirty dog1928
gazook1928
muzzler1928
roach1929
shite1929
mook1930
lug1931
slug1931
woodchuck1931
crud1932
dip1932
bohunkus1933
lint-head1933
Nimrod1933
warb1933
fuck-piga1935
owl-hoot1934
pissant1935
poot1935
shmegegge1937
motheree1938
motorcycle1938
squiff1939
pendejo1940
snotnose1941
jerkface1942
slag1943
yuck1943
fuckface?1945
fuckhead?1945
shit-head1945
shite-hawk1948
schlub1950
asswipe1953
mother1955
weenie1956
hard-on1958
rass hole1959
schmucko1959
bitch ass1961
effer1961
lamer1961
arsewipe1962
asshole1962
butthole1962
cock1962
dipshit1963
motherfuck1964
dork1965
bumhole1967
mofo1967
tosspot1967
crudball1968
dipstick1968
douche1968
frickface1968
schlong1968
fuckwit1969
rassclaat1969
ass1970
wank1970
fecker1971
wanker1971
butt-fucker1972
slimeball1972
bloodclaat1973
fuckwad1974
mutha1974
suck1974
cocksuck1977
tosser1977
plank1981
sleazebag1981
spastic1981
dweeb1982
bumboclaat1983
dickwad1983
scuzzbag1983
sleazeball1983
butt-face1984
dickweed1984
saddie1985
butt plug1986
jerkweed1988
dick-sucker1989
microcephalic1989
wankstain1990
sadster1992
buttmunch1993
fanny1995
jackhole1996
fassyhole1997
fannybaws2000
fassy2002
the mind > emotion > fear > cowardice or pusillanimity > [noun] > coward(s) > base or acknowledged coward
nithingOE
crathona1400
cradden1513
dastarda1529
poltroona1529
sneaksby1580
craven1581
niddering1596
fazart1597
cur1600
niding1605
white-liver1614
nidderling1664
snool1718
dastardling1800
1718 A. Ramsay Christ's-kirk on Green iii. 28 Ye silly snool, Wae-worth your drunken Saul.
1791 J. Learmont Poems Pastoral 4 [They] lead ye on like arrant snools, 'Lang error's road.
1818 G. Beattie John o' Arnha' (ed. 2) 13 Your snools in love, and cowards in war, Frae maiden grace are banish'd far.
1822 T. Carlyle Early Lett. II. 51 You or any one of us will never be a snool; we have not the blood of snools in our bodies.
1882 J. Walker Descr. Jaunt to Auld Reekie 87 Crouching snools are kin to gangrel bodies.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
snoolv.
/snuːl/ 1. transitive. To keep in subjection; to snub.
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society > authority > subjection > subjecting or subjugation > subject [verb (transitive)] > keep in subjection
to hold down1533
underkeep1590
to keep down1723
snool1735
1735 A. Ramsay Addr. Thanks from Society of Rakes 4 Our Donard Dads, snool'd with their Wives.
1792 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) II. 626 They snool me sair, and haud me down.
1830 J. Galt Lawrie Todd III. ix. i. 227 The arrogance and high hand with which Mr. Bell was attempting to snool us all.
2. intransitive. To submit tamely; to cringe; to crawl meekly or humbly.
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the mind > emotion > humility > servility > be servile [verb (intransitive)]
fawnc1325
crouch1528
jouk1573
crawl1576
creep1581
spaniel1599
grovel1605
spanielize1641
cringec1660
to lick the ground1667
truckle1680
to kiss (a person's) arse, behind, bum1705
toad-eat1766
snool1786
to eat (any one's) toads1788
kowtow1826
sidle1828
toady1861
to knock head1876
ass-lick1937
society > authority > subjection > obedience > submissiveness > submission > submit [verb (intransitive)]
onboweOE
bowa1000
abeyc1300
yielda1330
loutc1330
couchc1386
to come to a person's mercy?a1400
to do (also put) oneself in (also to) a person's mercya1400
hielda1400
underlouta1400
foldc1400
to come (also to put oneself) in a person's willc1405
subjectc1475
defer1479
avale1484
to come in1485
submita1525
submita1525
stoop1530
subscribe1556
compromit1590
warpa1592
to yield (also bow oneself) to (also upon) mercy1595
to come in will to a person1596
lead1607
knuckle1735
snool1786
1786 R. Burns Poems 234 Owre blate to seek, owre proud to snool.
1810 R. Tannahill Poems (1846) 141 Never snool beneath the frown Of any selfish roggie.
1833 T. Chalmers Let. in W. Hanna Mem. T. Chalmers (1850) III. 391 We had to snool back to London the way we came.
1895 ‘G. Setoun’ Sunshine & Haar ix. 198 Sandy ‘snooled’ through life with bovine equanimity.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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