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Definition of Snaffling
1. snaffle [v] - See also: snaffle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Snaffling
Literary usage of Snaffling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memorials of Old Buckinghamshire by Peter Hampson Ditchfield (1901)
"is testy, and will not eat his snaffling broth, though she made it as good as a
... snaffling broth," which was then given to children to make them strong, ..."
2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1901)
"He is our Lyng shopkeeper, and such a little snaffling [chattering] man, if I
may use the expression, I hardly ever heard. He is going to bring Mrs. Young ..."
3. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1890)
"snaffling-lay (old cant), highway robbery. I thought by your look you had been
a clever fellow, and upon the snaffling-lay nt least, but l find you are some ..."
4. Incomparable Bellairs by Egerton Castle, Agnes Castle (1904)
"Aye, there are again some of the snaffling gentry between here and Reading " "
snaffling gentry . . . ? Oho ! " cried the young gentleman, and tried to look ..."
5. A Glossary of Yorkshire Words and Phrases: Collected in Whitby and the by Francis Kildale Robinson (1855)
"Also, as a person walking with a short quick step is said to be snaffling in his
gait or manner. "A little snaffling fellow. ..."
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