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sneakery

noun

Etymology

From sneak + -ery (adjectival suffix).

  1. inherited from *snīkaną✻ — “to creep, crawl”
  2. inherited from *snīkan✻
  3. inherited from snīcan — “to creep, crawl”
  4. inherited from sniken — “to creep, crawl”
  5. suffixed as sneakery — “sneak + ery”

Definitions

  1. Stealth

    Stealth; the practice of sneaking

    • But time would fail to trace, in individual cases, the sneakery of History.
    • You fight fire with fire you know and so it is in this case fighting sneakery with sneakery.
    • We sneak into town using Dwarfish sneakery so no one sees us.

  2. Sneaky.

    • Vy she snoop and peer all the time after those poor sneakery Lanchester girls?
    • He could not break her surface to verify anything, and he found himself wishing some mild violence on her, a nick of the jig in her perfect calf, a sneakery slip, a bruised shin. Something to break the surface, just ding it a little.

  3. Involving or characteristic of sneakers.

    • Masked men and women, mainly white, swish past on sneakery soles.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for sneakery. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA