Smuggings, snatchings, or purloinings,—shouted out by boys, when snatching the tops, or small play property, of other lads, and then running off at full speed.
“Tops are in; spin ’em agin.
Tops are out; SMUGGING’S about.”
Smut, a copper boiler. Also, the “blacks” from a furnace.
Smutty, obscene,—vulgar as applied to conversation. Variation of dirty.
Snack, a share or division of plunder. To “go SNACKS,” to divide equally. Also, a light repast.—Old Cant and Gipsy term.
Snack, to quiz or chaff with regard to a particular weakness or recent transaction. As a substantive in this sense SNACK means an innuendo.
Snaffle, conversation on professional or private subjects which the rest of the company cannot appreciate. In East Anglia, to SNAFFLE is to talk foolishly.
Snaffled, arrested, “pulled up,”—so termed from a kind of horse’s bit called a SNAFFLE.
Snaggle teeth, those that are uneven, and unpleasant looking.—West.
Snaggling, angling after geese with a hook and line, the bait being a worm or snail. The goose swallows the bait, and is quietly landed and bagged. See Seymour’s Sketches.