Lexicographical Neighbors of Snash
Literary usage of Snash
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish Language: In which the Words are by John Jamieson, John Johnstone (1867)
"To snash, vn To talk saucily, S.—Su. ... snash-GAB, i. 1. Prating ; petulant
talking, 8. 2. A prattling forward boy or girl, 8. ..."
2. A Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: Supplement by John Jamieson (1825)
"To snash, vn To talk saucily, &c.] Etymon, 1. 6. for—Ihre derives tins v. ...
a husk ; perhaps rather from snash, v. ..."
3. A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert by J. B. Reid (1889)
".V. Does haughty Ca*/,t For half-starved snarling curs a dainty feast ; How they
maun thole a factor's snash ; The Twa Dogs. 13. Snatch. ..."
4. The Stickit Minister: And Some Common Men by Samuel Rutherford Crockett (1894)
"This is a thing no much affected in our countryside, except by John Tamson himsel'
and a road-man they call " snash" Magill. snash, when the School Board ..."
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