snig
English
Pronunciation
Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪɡ
Verb
snig (third-person singular simple present snigs, present participle snigging, simple past and past participle snigged)
- (Australia, New Zealand, forestry) To drag a log along the ground by means of a chain fastened at one end.
- (UK, dialect) To sneak.
- (UK, dialect) To chop off; to cut.
Etymology 2
Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *snigilaz or *snagilaz; related to snail.
Noun
snig (plural snigs)
- (UK, dialect) A small eel.
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 snig in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Anagrams
- IGNs, Ings, NGIs, Sing, Sing., gins, ings, nigs, sign, sing, sing.
Old Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sʲn͈ʲiɣʲ/
Verb
·snig
- third-person singular present indicative conjunct of snigid
Mutation
Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
snig | ṡnig | unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Serbo-Croatian
Alternative forms
- (Ekavian): snȇg
- (Ijekavian): snijȇg
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *sněgъ, from Proto-Indo-European *snóygʷʰos.
Noun
snig m (Cyrillic spelling сниг)
- (Chakavian, Ikavian) snow
- 1536, Petar Zoranić, Planine:
- Kako sunčen plam
- snig tali čas svak,
- a vitar bludan
- odgoni oblak,
- tako ljubezan
- tali moj žitak.
- 1622, Ivan Gundulić, Suze sina razmetnoga:
- Kami u cvijeću, cvit na snigu,
- Snig na suncu, sunce u noći.
- 1759, Antun Kanižlić, Sveta Rožalija:
- Ter po strmu brigu i kamenju idem,
- po trnju, po snigu, po jamah k njoj pridem.
- 1536, Petar Zoranić, Planine: