snickersnee
Americannoun
noun
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a knife for cutting or thrusting
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a fight with knives
Etymology
Origin of snickersnee
1690–1700; variant (by alliterative assimilation) of earlier stick or snee to thrust or cut < Dutch steken to stick 2 + snij ( d ) en to cut
Example Sentences
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Price is a sort of community-owned snickersnee, drawn when necessary to repel invaders, but not for civil strife.
From Time Magazine Archive
Authoress Strauss specializes in the cultivated titter, the swift verbal snickersnee.
From Time Magazine Archive
Pearson, relentless in scalping others, bellowed as loudly as any victim of his own snickersnee.
From Time Magazine Archive
A stowaway foretopman on the ship of state; a franc-tireur for the West and Christendom; a Burke, a Roland, a Quixote, with a whiff of Falstaff and a swing of the snickersnee.
From Time Magazine Archive
The only two considerable alterations have to do with the word snickersnee, the history of which is now clearly traced, and the name Bendigo.
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley
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