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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To move along, being snugly wrapped up.
  2. To save penuriously; be miserly or niggardly.
  3. n. A miser, or a mean sneaking fellow.

Wiktionary

  1. v. obsolete (intransitive) To lie snug or close to;
  2. n. obsolete A miser; a sneaking fellow.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. obsolete To lie snug or quiet.
  2. n. obsolete A miser; a sneaking fellow.

Etymologies

  1. Old English, related to snug (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “Would Conrig even permit his secret snudge to testify, knowing that thereby his anonymity would be lost and his value forfeit?”

    Conqueror's Moon

  • “I was at that time sixteen years of age, and had served Prince Heritor Conrig as a fledgling snudge and secret talent for four of them.”

    Conqueror's Moon

  • “Review's ill-favoured phiz, we find that the filthy snudge is yet more mischievous and ignorant than these ignorant wretches here, since they”

    Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5

  • ““I thought they’d help me be a better snudge,” the boy said tiredly.”

    Conqueror's Moon

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  1. miser

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  • yarb Not to make many wordes (since you will needs know) the king saies flatly, you are a miser & a snudge, and he neuer hopt better of you.

    - Thomas Nashe, The Unfortunate Traveller, 1594 Mar 5, 2010

  • bilby "A thief who hides himself under a bed, in order to rob the house."
    - Francis Grose, 'The Vulgar Tongue'. Sep 12, 2008

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