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Definition of Snickersnees
1. snickersnee [n] - See also: snickersnee
Lexicographical Neighbors of Snickersnees
Literary usage of Snickersnees
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and by Washington Irving (1849)
"... with a long duck fowling-pi. out any ramrod; and a host more, armed higgledy-pi.
with swords, hatchets, snickersnees, crowbars, ..."
2. Works by Washington Irving (1893)
"... with a long duck fowling-piece without any ramrod; and a host more, armed
higgledy-piggledy,—with swords, hatchets, snickersnees, crowbars, broomsticks, ..."
3. A History of New-York: From the Beginning of the World to the End of the by Washington Irving (1848)
"... with a long duck fowling-piece without any ramrod; and a host more, armed
higgledy-piggledy— with swords, .hatchets, snickersnees, ..."
4. Knickerbocker's History of New York by Washington Irving, Edward Windsor Kemble (1893)
"... with a long duck fowling-piece without any ramrod ; and a host more, armed
higgledy-piggledy,—with swords, hatchets, snickersnees, crowbars, broomsticks ..."
5. Letters from England by Robert Southey (1836)
"The Dutch slice each other with their snickersnees ; we know how deadly the knife
is employed in our country ; the American twists the hair of his enemy ..."
6. A History of New York: From the Beginning of the World to the End of the by Washington Irving (1868)
"... hatchets, snickersnees, crowbars, broomsticks, and what not; the officers
distinguished from the rest by having their slouched hats cocked up with pins, ..."
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