snick or snee

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[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

From Dutch steken ‘thrust, stick’ + snee, a dialectal variant of snijden ‘cut’. The st- of steken later assimilated to the sn- of snee.

[edit] Pronunciation

  • IPA: /snɪk ɔ: sni:/

[edit] Verb

snick or snee

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) to cut or thrust while fighting with a knife; to use a knife as a weapon

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