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22 words match “SNEAK”

SNEAK v. 5 definitions
about) privately; to come or go meanly, as a person afraid or ashamed to be seen; as, to sneak away from company. imp. & p. p. "snuck" is more common now, but not even mentioned here. In MW10, simply "sneaked or snuck" You skulked behind the fence, and sneaked away. Dryden.
SNEAK CURRENT n.
A current which, though too feeble to blow the usual fuse or to injure at once telegraph or telephone instruments, will in time burn them out.
SNEAK-CUP n.
One who sneaks from his cups; one who balks his glass. [Obs.] Shak.
SNEAKER n. 2 definitions
One who sneaks. Lamb.
SNEAKINESS n.
The quality of being sneaky.
SNEAKING a.
cowardly concealment; deficient in openness and courage; underhand; mean; crouching. -- Sneak"ing*ly, adv. -- Sneak"ing*ness, n.
SNEAKSBY n.
A paltry fellow; a sneak. [Obs.] "Such a bashful sneaksby." Barrow.
SNEAKY n.
Like a sneak; sneaking.
CUCKOLDLY a.
Having the qualities of a cuckold; mean-spirited; sneaking. Shak.
DISGUISE v.
liquor; to intoxicate. I have just left the right worshipful, and his myrmidons, about a sneaker or five gallons; the whole magistracy was pretty well disguised before I gave them the ship. Spectator.
HAKE v.
To loiter; to sneak. [Prov. Eng.]
HANGDOG n. 2 definitions
A base, degraded person; a sneak; a gallows bird.
INTEREST n.
hinder the common interest and public good. Sir W. Temple. When interest calls of all her sneaking train. Pope.
MICH; MICHE v.
To lie hid; to skulk; to act, or carry one's self, sneakingly. [Obs. or Colloq.] [Written also meach and meech.] Spenser.
PEAKING a.
Mean; sneaking. [Vulgar]
PILGARLIC n.
One who has lost his hair by disease; a sneaking fellow, or one who is hardly used.
SHUG v.
Hence, to crawl; to sneak. [Obs.] There I 'll shug in and get a noble countenance. Ford.
SKULK v.
To hide, or get out of the way, in a sneaking manner; to lie close, or to move in a furtive way; to lurk. "Want skulks in holes and crevices." W. C. Bryant. Discovered and defeated of your prey, You skulked behind the fence, and sneaked away. Dryden.
SLINK v. 2 definitions
To creep away meanly; to steal away; to sneak. "To slink away and hide." Tale of Beryn. Back to the thicket slunk The guilty serpent. Milton. There were some few who slank obliquely from them as they passed. Landor.
SLIVE v.
To sneak. [Prov. Eng.]
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