Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • A euphemistic substitute for swear. See swan, swow.

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Examples

  • Lucy needs to learn about the drum-tummied snum and the the fluff-ruffled muffle!

    swiper, stop swiping! 2007

  • "Wal, I snum!" exclaimed Uncle Jason, still staring at the bit of paper, which was a Wells-Fargo express check for the sum named.

    Janice Day at Poketown Helen Beecher Long

  • "I snum!" said Jim, wiping the wondering little face in a sort of fever of discovery and taking off color at every daub with the rag.

    Bruvver Jim's Baby Philip Verrill Mighels

  • "I snum! mebbe you're right," grunted Walky Dexter.

    Janice Day at Poketown Helen Beecher Long

  • _ (His artillery now rumbling down the heights on the full gallop.) -- I snum, that's awful!

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Various

  • I snum! they buzz around that readin'-room for chances to read the papers like bees around a honey-pot.

    Janice Day at Poketown Helen Beecher Long

  • The half-breed skipper stood next to me, and I snum if you couldn't see him shrivel up like one of them things they call a sensitive plant.

    Cape Cod Stories Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

  • You'll set down and have a bite with us, won't you, Mr. -- Major -- I snum I've forgot your name.

    Shavings Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

  • "I snum I don't know what to make of him," declared Mr. Abijah

    Shavings Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

  • They didn't have anything to do but to look "picturesque" and say "I snum!" and "I swan to man!" and they could do that to the skipper's taste.

    Cape Cod Stories Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

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