Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling a snipe (the bird) or some aspect of one.

Etymologies

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snipe +‎ -like

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Examples

  • The piggish snuffle might also be the sound they make when their long straight snipelike bills probe feelingly into the black mud, like a blind man’s stick, reaching after worms, seeing in the dark.

    A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009

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