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Snack

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The snack of a door (Norfolk) The latch. Generally called the “sneck” (q.v.).

To take a snack. To take a morsel.

To go snacks. To share and share alike.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Smells of the Lamp
Smelts (Stock-Exchange term)
Smiler
Smith
Smith of Nottingham
Smith’s Prize-man
Smithfield
Smoke
Smoke Farthings
Smoke Silver
Snack
Snails have no sex
Snake-Stones
Snake in the Grass
Snakes in his Boots (To have)
Snap-Dragons
Snap of the Fingers
Snap One’s Nose Off
Snarling Letter (Latin, litera canina)
Sneck Posset
Sneezed