The Public School Word-book / A conribution to to a historical glossary of words phrases and turns of expression obsolete and in current use peculiar to our great public schools together with some that have been or are modish at the universities

by John Stephen Farmer

Snack, subs. (Winchester).—A racket ball: formerly a bat-fives ball. [Snack-balls (Glouc.) = balls made of SNACK (a dried fungus), which are very elastic and bounce well.]

Snap-up, verb (Winchester).—See quot.

c. 1840. Mansfield, School-Life at Winchester (1866), 234. Snapping up for false quantities.—When up at Books, if any boy, when translating, made a false quantity, any other boy (however low down in the Part) who could first correct him was allowed to go up above him. If, however, the SNAPPER-UP was himself wrong, he had to go to the bottom of the Part.

Snicks. To go snicks, verb. phr. (Winchester).—To share.

Snitch, subs. (Christ’s Hospital).—A term of contempt.

Verb (Derby).—To hit in the eye.

Sniw. To offer sniw, verb. phr. (The Leys).—To cheek. [Sniw = Snow.]

Snob, subs. 1. (University).—A townsman.

2. (Marlborough).—Small cricket: as two together, or at tip and run.

Snoke, subs. (Durham: obsolete).—(1) An underhand person: e.g. “He is a great SNOKE”; (2) an untoward circumstance: e.g. “It was a great SNOKE, we lost the match.”