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Etymology
From Dutch steken ‘thrust, stick’ + snee, a dialectal variant of snijden ‘cut’. The st- of steken later assimilated to the sn- of snee.

Pronunciation
IPA|/snɪk ɔ: sni:/

Verb

snick or snee

1. context|intransitive|obsolete to cut or thrust while fighting with a knife; to use a knife as a weapon

Related terms
snickersnee

Category:Dutch derivations

• 2007-09-13 01:18 - Connel MacKenzieBot - Robot: Automated text replacement (-{{rfc-xphrase|Verb phrase}} +)

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