snamとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

snam (third-person singular simple present snams, present participle snamming, simple past and past participle snammed)

1. (transitive, Scotland) To snatch with the jaws; snap at something greedily.
2. (transitive, UK, slang, obsolete) To steal; snatch.
   • 1859, Snowden's Magistrates Assistant, page 497:

     He has been lagged for beaker hunting, was a mushroom faker, has been on the steel for snamming a wedge sneezer; […]

3. (transitive, UK, slang, obsolete) To rob (a person).
   • 1880, Henry Spicer, Winged Words, page 144:

     I on'y meant fur to snam (rob) him, and on'y giv' him a tightener, when somethin' come dancing and shreeking down the road, and I vamoosed.

関連する語

• nim
• nimble
• nom

参照

• John Camden Hotten (1873), The Slang Dictionary