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
Authoress Strauss specializes in the cultivated titter, the swift verbal snickersnee.
From Time Magazine Archive
But on Saturday afternoons off he went to "Shadow Lawn," his summer mansion on the Jersey coast, and drew his snickersnee.
From Time Magazine Archive
Price is a sort of community-owned snickersnee, drawn when necessary to repel invaders, but not for civil strife.
From Time Magazine Archive
I'll grant he was some fencer with his doughty snickersnee, But Richard Cœur de Lion didn't have a thing on me!
From The Stars and Stripes The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919 by United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces
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