sny
/snaɪ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.11 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "“And did you kill it?” “I did, for they’re a nuisance. The place is fair snied wi’ ‛em.”"
- "1893, Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad, Tom Sawyer, Detective and Other Stories (1896), page unknown “Well, Mars Tom, my idea is like dis. It ain’t no use, we can’t kill dem po’ strangers dat ain’t doin’ us no harm, till we’ve had practice — I knows it perfectly well, Mars Tom — ‛deed I knows it perfectly well. But ef we takes a’ ax or two, jist you en me en Huck, en slips acrost de river to-night arter de moon’s gone down, en kills dat sick fam’ly dat’s over on the Sny, en burns dey house down, en —”"
- "The word snye, sny or snie has been used for many years to describe a channel behind an island, with slack current or partly dried, or some such similar feature."
Etymology
Of obscure origin. Likely from late Middle English sniȝen, snyȝen (“to creep”), from Old Danish *snigæ (whence modern Danish snige), from Old Norse sníkja (“to crawl, creep”). If so, doublet of sneak.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /snaɪ/
- British English: /snaɪ/