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upsnatch

verb

Etymology

From up- + snatch.

  1. inherited from *snakjaną✻ — “to whiff, sniff, catch wind of; to taste-test, nibble”
  2. inherited from *snakkjan✻
  3. inherited from *snæċċan✻
  4. inherited from snacchen
  5. prefixed as upsnatch — “up + snatch”

Definitions

  1. To seize or snatch up.

    • With pity struck, with horror for my deed, The babe upsnatch'd away I bore with speed ; And, knowing Zion should be captive led, Far to these mountains of the East I sped.
    • With Zephyr from his palace in the west, thou dost upsnatch the Twins from cradled rest, And strain them to thy breast, [...]
    • To her the wood-ivy, like a spirit, hovers round the old hawthorn, and everywhere "mystic Presences of power" "upsnatch" her "to the timeless, then return" her "to the Hour."

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for upsnatch. 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