“I would really love to meet him again all these years later,” snider said.
To his credit, snider was initially as defiant as his song encourages its listeners to be.
He fired into them with a shotgun, and killed a German lad of eleven years, named snider.
The men were armed with the snider, and were very stalwart and tall.
Six snider rifles and two ponies were captured by the dacoits.
They had snider rifles, and it was evident they were there to see that nobody came out.
On the other hand, I am gratified to find that this old snider shoots so true.
It was a bullet hole; the sort of gap made by a heavy snider missile.
"Writ with a snider bullet, I take it," continued the trader.
Grasping his snider by the tip of the barrel the man looked at his wife with sullen, dulled ferocity.
1859, thieves' slang, "counterfeit, sham, bad, spurious," of unknown origin. Of persons, "cunning, sharp," from 1883. Sense of "sneering" is first attested 1933, perhaps via sense of "hypocrisy, malicious gossip" (1902). Related: Sneeringly.
adjective
Contemptible; mean; nasty, esp in an insinuating way • Now used nearly exclusively in reference to remarks and persons who make them: A woman gets nothing but snide remarks about her driving skills
[1859+; origin unknown]
