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snitch

verb
/snɪt͡ʃ/

Etymology

Origin uncertain. Perhaps an alteration of Middle English snacche (“a trap, snare”), snacchen (“to seize (prey)”, whence modern English snatch). Compare also Middle English snik snak (“a sudden blow, snap”). Alternatively, perhaps from a dialectal variant of sneak, from Middle English sniken, from Old English snīcan (“to creep; crawl”). More at sneak.

  1. inherited from snīcan — “to creep; crawl”
  2. inherited from sniken
  3. inherited from snacche — “a trap, snare”

Definitions

  1. To inform on someone, especially in betrayal of others.

  2. To contact or cooperate with the police for any reason.

  3. To steal, quickly and quietly.

    • Besides, I shall require your help in snitching the pig. But I was forgetting. You are not abreast of that side of our activities, are you? Emsworth has a pig. The Duke wants it.
  4. ›+ 5 more definitions

    1. A thief.

    2. An informer, one who betrays their group.

    3. A nose.

      • 'Yah, I wouldn't git a second-'and dress at a pawnbroker's!' 'Garn!' said Liza indignantly. 'I'll swipe yer over the snitch if yer talk ter me. [...] "

    4. A tiny morsel.

      • "He pays for the food you eat," said the woman. "Yeah," said the boy. "And I earn every snitch doing everything ever gets done around here."

    5. A ball used in the sport of Quidditch

      A ball used in the sport of Quidditch: the Golden Snitch.

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Derived

antisnitching, dry snitch, snitchee, snitcher, snitch-jacket, snitch up, antisnitch, bibliosnitch, nonsnitch, snitch bitch, snitches get stitches, snitches get stitches and wind up in ditches, snitchy

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for snitch. 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