Snavel
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Snavel is a verb meaning To steal, to pickpocket.
Meaning
To steal, to pickpocket.
More Meanings
- (Australia, New Zealand) To snatch.
Example Sentences
Paul tried to snavel Dan′s chair from under him.
1902, Barbara Baynton, Bush Studies, 2009, Sydney University Press, page 59, Then he missed his silk handkerchief. “Ghost!” he said, breathing heavily. “Mag′s snavelled it! […] ”
These primitive merchants lost the Booradeela Timber Reserve when it was snavelled up even before the Depression by the Kincomba Building Combine with a wheedled government contract.
Billy May said he made his first electric guitars after talking to an American named Paul Bigsley, who claimed to be the inventor of the Tremolo Lever, which idea, according to Billy, was “snavelled” by Fender and improved upon.
Word Forms
- snavels
- snaveling
- snavelling
- snaveled
- snavelled
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include pick, pickpocket, snam, knab, snatch, swipe.
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