Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of the nature of a snare; entangling; insidious.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Resembling, or consisting of, snares; entangling; insidious.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Resembling, or consisting of,
snares ; tending toentangle ;insidious .
Etymologies
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snare + -y
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Examples
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But the fact that the poet has slyly changed the word "amber" to "snary" in sonnet xiv., and "golden" to "sable" in sonnet xxxviii., looks as if he desired to shield her personality from too blunt a guess.
Elizabethan Sonnet-Cycles Delia - Diana Samuel Daniel 1590
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