snick or snee

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA: /snɪk ɔː sniː/

Verb

snick or snee

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

Related terms

• snickersnee