英语词汇“sneaky”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词

sneaky

释义

sneak /snēk/

intransitive verb (pat and pap sneaked or (N American or informal) snuck)

To go furtively or meanly, to slink or skulk
To cringe
To behave meanly
To tell tales

transitive verb

To pass furtively
To steal (slang)

noun

A sneaking person
A person who sneaks or sneaks away
A sneaking thief
A telltale

ORIGIN: Connection with OE snīcan to crawl is obscure

sneakˈer noun

A person who or thing that sneaks
A soft-soled, usu canvas, shoe
A sandshoe

sneakˈily adverb

sneakˈiness noun

sneakˈing adjective

Mean, crouching
Secret, underhand, not openly avowed
Slight but persistent
Lurking under other feelings

sneakˈingly adverb

sneakˈish adjective

Befitting a sneak

sneakˈishly adverb

sneakˈishness noun

sneaksˈby noun (archaic)

A sneak

sneakˈy adjective

Sneaking
Cunning

sneakˈ-cup noun

In some editions of Shakespeare (1 Henry IV III.3.84), probably a misreading of a blurred sneakeup (same as sneak-up below) in the first quartos, but by some taken to be a correction and explained as one who balks his cup, or a stealer of cups

sneak preview noun

A special private screening or viewing of a film, exhibition, etc before it is officially released, made available, etc to the public

sneakˈ-raid noun

A bombing or other raid made under conditions of concealment

sneak thief noun

A thief who steals through open doors or windows without breaking in

sneakˈ-thievery noun

sneakˈ-up noun

A sneak, shirker or skulker

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