Thesaurus: snithe
Alt. of Snithy
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- a. Alt. of Snithy
- Sharp; piercing; cutting; -- applied to the wind. [Prov. Eng.]
- snithe (third-person singular simple present snithes, present participle snithing, simple past snithed or snothe, past participle snithed or snithen) (transitive, now chiefly dialectal, Northern England) To cut. snithe (comparative more snithe, superlative most snithe) Sharp; cutting. (of wind or weather) Cold. snithe (third-person singular simple present snithes, present participle snithing, simple past and past participle snithed) Obsolete spelling of sny (abound, swarm, teem, be infested). [17th century]