snick | (noun) a small cut | Synonyms: nick, notch |
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(noun) a glancing contact with the ball off the edge of the cricket bat | - |
(verb) cut slightly, with a razor | Synonyms: nick |
(verb) hit a glancing blow with the edge of the bat | - |
snicker | (noun) a disrespectful laugh | Synonyms: snigger, snort |
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(verb) laugh quietly | Synonyms: snigger |
snickersnee | (noun) fighting with knives | Synonyms: cut-and-thrust, knife fight |
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snide | (adjective) expressive of contempt | Synonyms: sneering, supercilious |
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snidely | (adverb) with a sneer; in an uncomplimentary sneering manner | Synonyms: sneeringly, superciliously |
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sniff | (noun) sensing an odor by inhaling through the nose | Synonyms: snuff |
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(verb) inhale audibly through the nose | Synonyms: sniffle |
(verb) perceive by inhaling through the nose | Synonyms: whiff |
sniffer | (noun) a person who sniffs | - |
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sniffle | (noun) the act of breathing heavily through the nose (as when the nose is congested) | Synonyms: snivel, snuffle |
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(verb) inhale audibly through the nose | Synonyms: sniff |
(verb) cry or whine with snuffling | Synonyms: blub, blubber, snivel, snuffle |
sniffler | (noun) a person who breathes audibly through a congested nose | Synonyms: sniveler |
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sniffly | (adjective) liable to sniffle | Synonyms: snuffling, snuffly |
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sniffy | (adjective) having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy | Synonyms: disdainful, haughty, imperious, lordly, overbearing, prideful, supercilious, swaggering |
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snifter | (noun) a globular glass with a small top; used for serving brandy | Synonyms: brandy glass, brandy snifter |
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snigger | (noun) a disrespectful laugh | Synonyms: snicker, snort |
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(verb) laugh quietly | Synonyms: snicker |
snip | (noun) the act of clipping or snipping | Synonyms: clip, clipping |
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(noun) a small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off) | Synonyms: snippet, snipping |
(verb) cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of | Synonyms: clip, crop, cut back, dress, lop, prune, trim |
(verb) sever or remove by pinching or snipping | Synonyms: clip, nip, nip off, snip off |
snipe | (noun) a gunshot from a concealed location | - |
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(noun) Old or New World straight-billed game bird of the sandpiper family; of marshy areas; similar to the woodcocks | - |
(verb) attack in speech or writing | Synonyms: assail, assault, attack, lash out, round |
(verb) aim and shoot with great precision | Synonyms: sharpshoot |
(verb) hunt or shoot snipe | - |
snipefish | (noun) small bottom-dwelling fish of warm seas having a compressed body and a long snout with a toothless mouth | Synonyms: bellows fish |
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sniper | (noun) a marksman who shoots at people from a concealed place | - |
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snippet | (noun) a small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off) | Synonyms: snip, snipping |
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snipping | (noun) a small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off) | Synonyms: snip, snippet |
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snips | (noun) (plural) hand shears for cutting sheet metal | Synonyms: tinsnips |
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snit | (noun) a state of agitated irritation | - |
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snitch | (noun) someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police | Synonyms: canary, fink, sneak, sneaker, snitcher, stool pigeon, stoolie, stoolpigeon |
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(verb) give away information about somebody | Synonyms: betray, denounce, give away, grass, rat, shit, shop, stag, tell on |
(verb) take by theft | Synonyms: cop, glom, hook, knock off, thieve |
snitcher | (noun) someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police | Synonyms: canary, fink, sneak, sneaker, snitch, stool pigeon, stoolie, stoolpigeon |
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(noun) a thief who steals without using violence | Synonyms: pilferer, sneak thief |
snivel | (noun) whining in a tearful manner | Synonyms: sniveling |
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(noun) the act of breathing heavily through the nose (as when the nose is congested) | Synonyms: sniffle, snuffle |
(verb) snuff up mucus through the nose | Synonyms: snuffle |
(verb) cry or whine with snuffling | Synonyms: blub, blubber, sniffle, snuffle |
(verb) talk in a tearful manner | Synonyms: whine |
sniveler | (noun) a person who breathes audibly through a congested nose | Synonyms: sniffler |
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sniveling | (noun) whining in a tearful manner | Synonyms: snivel |
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sniveller | (noun) a person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining | Synonyms: bellyacher, complainer, crybaby, grumbler, moaner, squawker, whiner |
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