snavel
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To steal; to pickpocket.
Example Sentences
- "1902, Barbara Baynton, Bush Studies, 2009, Sydney University Press, page 59, Then he missed his silk handkerchief. “Ghost!” he said, breathing heavily. “Mag′s snavelled it! […] ”"
- "‘You got to own I’m pretty good when it comes to snavelling venison pasties,’ he said."
- "Billy May said he made his first electric guitars after talking to an American named Paul Bigsley, who claimed to be the inventor of the Tremolo Lever, which idea, according to Billy, was “snavelled” by Fender and improved upon."
- "Paul tried to snavel Dan′s chair from under him."
- "1915, New Zealand House of Representatives, Parliamentary Debates, page 472, This was in his constituency, and he believed the idea was to go straight through the reserve eventually — that if they snavelled this piece now they would snavel more of this playground a little later on, and completely spoil the reserve."
- "These primitive merchants lost the Booradeela Timber Reserve when it was snavelled up even before the Depression by the Kincomba Building Combine with a wheedled government contract."
Etymology
Usage
Inflected Forms
snavels (present, singular)
snaveling (US, participle)
snavelling (UK, participle)
snaveled (US, participle)
snaveled (US, past)
snavelled (UK, participle)
snavelled (UK, past)