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English
Etymology
Blend of snap + nam (“to seize, grab; chew, eat greedily”).
Verb
snam (third-person singular simple present snams, present participle snamming, simple past and past participle snammed)
- (transitive, Scotland) To snatch with the jaws; snap at something greedily.
- (transitive, UK, slang, obsolete) To steal; snatch.
1859, Snowden's Magistrates Assistant, page 497:He has been lagged for beaker hunting, was a mushroom faker, has been on the steel for snamming a wedge sneezer; […]
- (transitive, UK, slang, obsolete) To rob (a person).
1880, Henry Spicer, Winged Words, page 144:I on'y meant fur to snam (rob) him, and on'y giv' him a tightener, when somethin' come dancing and shreeking down the road, and I vamoosed.
References
- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
Pnar
Etymology
From Proto-Khasian *snaːm, from Proto-Mon-Khmer. Cognate with Khasi snam, Blang ná̤m, Khmu maːm, Bahnar pham, Pacoh aham, Khmer ឈាម (chiəm), Car Nicobarese mahām and Mang haːm¹.
Pronunciation
Noun
snam
- blood