sned

English

Verb

1. (UK, dialect, transitive) To lop.

   Synonyms: snathe, snead

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “sned”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Ends, NDEs, dens, ends, neds, send

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Swedish

Etymology

Abbreviation of Old Swedish snedher. Related to snedd (“obliqueness, inclination”).

Alternative forms

• sne (colloquial)

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -eː

Adjective

sned (comparative snedare, superlative snedast)

1. not straight; sloping; at a non-right angle to; neither horizontal nor vertical
2. angry (with), sour; in a very bad mood

Declension

Inflection of sned
Indefinite	Positive	Comparative	Superlative2
Common singular	sned	snedare	snedast
Neuter singular	snett	snedare	snedast
Plural	sneda	snedare	snedast
Masculine plural3	snede	snedare	snedast
Definite	Positive	Comparative	Superlative
Masculine singular1	snede	snedare	snedaste
All	sneda	snedare	snedaste
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic

Related terms

• (not straight): snedda

References

• sned in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• neds.