“snick、snarl”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

snick-snarl

释义

ˈsnick-snarl Now dial.
[f. snarl n.¹, with obscure first element; cf. the common north. dial. snock-snarl.]
A tangle, knot, twist. Also fig.
1649Lightfoot Battle Wasp's Nest Wks. I. 383, I could deduce such conclusions from these premises, that would make his opinion..run so on snicksnarles, that..he would find enough to do to unknot it again.1675Alsop Anti-Sozzo 277 It were tedious to instance..how they run their Enemies all on Heaps, and perplex their Discourses all into Snicksnarles.1828Carr Craven Gloss., Snick-snarles, the complication of thread, yarn, &c., the state of its being entangled.1862Oldham Standard 5 Apr. 2/4 (Cassell), Somebody must unravel the snick-snarls in the hank which somebody else had no more wit than to tangle.1883Gresley Gloss. Coal Mining 145 Kank, a twist or snick⁓snarl in a rope.

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