Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. An onomatopoeia of unclear meaning, possibly referring to sharpness, or the sound of a blade cutting through something.
Etymologies
- Coined by Lewis Carroll in his poem Jabberwocky, probably relating to snickersnee. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“And through and through/The vorpal scissors went snicker-snack!”
“Say it once, say it clearly, and if that fails, bring out the vorpal sword that goes snicker-snack!”
“Put your vorpal blade away, snicker-snack, your wit is too cutting by half. stellaa wrote on January 20, 2008 12: 21 AM: duckduckduckduck wrote on January 19, 2008 11: 54 PM: Big story in the paper .....”
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“Put your vorpal blade away, snicker-snack, your wit is too cutting by half.”
“Open shutter for a brief snicker-snack, then shut and return to Pinhole for processing.”
Alice in Mail Art Land/Traveling Light with a Pinhole Camera
“Backed by the confident narration of Will Lyman he could call a round of bingo and make it sound imperative, Frontline cuts snicker-snack through the confusing events and decision tree of our near-miss financial collapse.”
“He wanted to hear the wet snicker-snack of a knife slitting skin, he wanted to feel the hot rain of someone's life splatteringg on his hands, he wanted to watch the last glimmer of hope bleed from their face until finally there was only endless, dreadful nothingness.”
Alone
“One of the creatures was still mobile, and with a look of contemptuous impatience on his face, Morgan drew the broadsword at his hip — the one used for executions of wizards guilty of breaking one of the Laws of Magic — paused a beat to get the timing right, and then swung, once, twice, snicker-snack, and the zombie fell apart into a number of wriggling bits.”
Dead Beat
“And through and through, The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!”
“The beamish boy slew the burbling jabberwock with his vorpal blade, which went snicker-snack: “He left it dead, and with its head / He went galumphing back.””
Simon & Schuster: The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘snicker-snack’.
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Reduples
Go for it, brothers and sisters! I personally have been suffering long for lack of an open reduplicatives list
happy clappy, bribble-brabble, diddle-daddle, hugger-mugger, kikiriki, Bora-Bora, mahi-mahi, jingle-jangle, knick-knack paddy..., chit-chat, bon-bon, clapperclaw and 292 more...
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Hyphen-hyphen
A list of interesting words incorporating a hyphen
cat's-paw, sea-mew, kiss-me-quick, kiss-ass, yellow-bellied, lily-livered, hush-hush, hugger-mugger, fox-trot, super-duper, fuddy-duddy, boogie-woogie and 33 more...
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Chit Chat
Conversations that are shorter than those featured in my conversations list.
props, frass, narwhal, preggers, mu, hype, heterotopia, sans serif, cow orker, snicker-snack, modality road, boolean poetry and 77 more...
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Folksy Compounds
Those great mashup words that sound like somebody's grampa made them up.
flabbergasted, flibbertigibbet, fussbudget, snickerpuss, chickabiddy, clapperclaw, screaming meemies, snicker-snack, hornswoggle, humdinger, crinkum-crankum, callithump and 11 more...
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Garbiage
word trash
parapluie, brobdingnagian, plié, segue, laconic, pastoral, phthisis, belly, synecdoche, apotheosis, sepulchral, mollification and 40 more...
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neologisms I like
nimrod, snarky, painbow, interrobang, hoser, kooky, craptastic, preggers, asshat, brainiac, shoegaze, skanker-sore and 146 more...
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Quenelles of Random Palavery
More randomly-garnered terms from the world of words that don't quite yet fit into my other lists.
Goddidit, barcelona, filigrain, good-natured, ill-natured, half-bit, endosome, underplaying, parotid, denormalization, sleightgeist, wheezing and 2334 more...
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Poetrie: Jabberwocky
Thanks to uselessness for the idea of Poetrie.
Be sure to see also the word page Jabberwocky, which contains a spell-checked version of this poem, thanks to His Excellency oroboros. Ri...chortled, callay, callooh, frabjous, beamish, slain, thou, hast, galumphing, snicker-snack, burbled, tulgey and 20 more...
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Jabberwordies
jabberwocky, brillig, slithy, toves, gyre, gimble, wabe, mimsy, borogoves, mome raths, outgrabe, jabberwock and 17 more...
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Jabberwocky
slithy, tove, brillig, gyre, grimble, mimsy, mome, outgrabe, borogoves, jabberwock, raths, jubjub and 16 more...
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'Twas brillig and the slithey toves
Made-up words and otehr such nonsense, most notably from the works of Lewis Carrol, Edward Lear, Roald Dahl, and Dr. Seuss, and their adaptations.
brillig, slithy, tove, gyre, gimble, wabe, mimsy, borogrove, outgrabe, jabberwocky, jubjub, frumious and 38 more...
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jabberwocky
words from Lewis Carroll's poem
brillig, slithy, toves, gyre, gimble, wabe, mimsy, borogoves, mome raths, outgrabe, jabberwock, jubjub and 11 more...
Tweets
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lovenewwords1234 (noun- slang) snicker-snack: a quick snack or mid-meal treat, a snack for road trips or events, children's snacks. (ex: Let's stop by the store and get some snicker-snacks for the road.) Derived from Lewis Carrol's term 'snicker snack' used in the poem Jabberwocky. Sep 25, 2009
oroboros Keen! Jul 20, 2007
reesetee Why thanks, arby. My mome raths have always been rather outgrabe. Jul 19, 2007
arby OMG U, you cheater! I totally thought you knew it off the top of your head!
PS R you're mad borograve. Jul 19, 2007
reesetee You guys are so mimsy. Jul 19, 2007
uselessness It's one of those poems everyone should know!
(Confession time: I didn't know it... but Google is my friend.) ;-) Jul 19, 2007
arby Dude, THANK YOU. Also, I never would have guessed it, not in a million years. Vorpal sounds very sci-fi to me. Jul 19, 2007
uselessness Jabberwocky! Jul 19, 2007
arby What is that from, it WILL drive crazy until I remember or someone tells me. Jul 19, 2007
oroboros How the vorpal blade went! Jul 19, 2007