snitch
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Definition of snitch
8 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
- (intransitive, slang)To inform on someone, especially in betrayal of others.
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verb
- (intransitive, slang)To inform on someone, especially in betrayal of others.
- (intransitive, slang)To contact or cooperate with the police for any reason.
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(dated, slang, transitive)To steal, quickly and quietly.
“Besides, I shall require your help in snitching the pig. But I was forgetting. You are not abreast of that side of our activities, are you? Emsworth has a pig. The Duke wants it.”
noun
- (slang)A thief.
- (slang)An informer, one who betrays their group.
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(British, slang)A nose.
“'Yah, I wouldn't git a second-'and dress at a pawnbroker's!' 'Garn!' said Liza indignantly. 'I'll swipe yer over the snitch if yer talk ter me. [...] "”
“He added in conclusion that he strongly disliked the police coming and sticking its nose into his affairs and, since the horror which such actions inspired in him was not far from making him wish to vomit, he extracted from his pocket a silken square of the colour of the lilac flower (the one that isn’t white) but impregnated with Barbouze, the Fior perfume, and with it dabbed his snitch.”
“On one level clearly emblematic of her class status, “she’d have really looked down her snitch at me”), Virginia Woolf's nose, both Bennett and his audience would know, signifies as well the far more frightening power, the phallic power, attributed to women, strong women in particular.”
“‘Yes, I’m a witch! I wiggle my snitch![...]’”
“Bluenoze: Blow your nose to clear your snitch of whatever it is you've been snorting and read the postings again.”
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A tiny morsel.
“"He pays for the food you eat," said the woman. "Yeah," said the boy. "And I earn every snitch doing everything ever gets done around here."”
- A ball used in the sport of Quidditch: the Golden Snitch.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Origin uncertain. Perhaps an alteration of Middle English snacche (“a trap, snare”), snacchen (“to seize (prey)”, whence modern English snatch). Compare also Middle English snik snak (“a sudden blow, snap”). Alternatively, perhaps from a dialectal variant of sneak, from Middle English sniken, from Old English snīcan (“to creep; crawl”). More at sneak.
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