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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Tough old John Taber of New York took up his snickersnee, whacked $130 millions off with one slash.
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
Authoress Strauss specializes in the cultivated titter, the swift verbal snickersnee.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the next eight months Dumaine fired eleven of the New Haven's top management, including two vice presidents and the treasurer.*Last week he swung his snickersnee again.
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 Weekley, Ernest
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