Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To cut.
- Sharp; cutting; cold: said of the wind.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Prov. Eng. Sharp; piercing; cutting; -- applied to the wind.
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- verb Seventeenth-century spelling of
sny (abound, swarm, teem, be infested). - verb transitive, Northern England To
cut . - adjective
Sharp ;cutting . - adjective of wind or weather
Cold .
Etymologies
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Variation of sny.
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From Middle English snithen, from Old English snīþan ("to cut, make an incision, cut off, lance or amputate, cut up or to pieces, cut so as to kill, slay an animal, hew down, cut stone, hew, cut hair, cut corn, reap, mow"), from Proto-Germanic *snīþanan (“to cut”), from Proto-Indo-European *sneyt- (“to cut”). Cognate with Dutch snijden ("to cut, carve, intersect"), German schneiden ("to cut, trim, slice"), Swedish snida ("to carve, engrave"), Icelandic sníða ("to trim, tailor"). Related to snide.
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