snig

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English

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ɪɡ

Etymology 1

Verb

snig (third-person singular simple present snigs, present participle snigging, simple past and past participle snigged)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, forestry) To drag a log along the ground by means of a chain fastened at one end.
  2. (UK, dialect) To sneak.
  3. (UK, dialect) To chop off; to cut.

Etymology 2

Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *snigilaz or *snagilaz; related to snail.

Noun

snig (plural snigs)

  1. (UK, dialect) A small eel.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “snig”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Old Irish

Pronunciation

Verb

·snig

  1. third-person singular present indicative conjunct of snigid

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
snig ṡnig unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sněgъ, from Proto-Indo-European *snóygʷʰos.

Noun

snig m (Cyrillic spelling сниг)

  1. (Chakavian, Ikavian) snow
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